Elemental notes
61 notesElemental notes smell of matter rather than of a plant or a food: sulphur, metal, stone and wet rock. A touch of them can make a composition feel sharp, mineral or cold. This list is the notes that lean on elemental more than on any other scent family.
About these notes
Open any note for what it smells like and the perfumes that wear it.
Botanical
11 notesAbout botanical notes
Plants, and what is pressed, distilled or extracted straight from them - peel, petal, resin, root, wood, leaf.
Prepared
13 notesAbout prepared notes
Materials that only exist because something was done to them: roasted, burnt, tanned, fermented, cured, cooked.
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Ink
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Gunpowder
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Ash
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Motor Oil
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Tonic Water
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Rubber
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Latex
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Burnt Match
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Drawing Ink
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Gun Smoke
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Neoprene
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Rocket Fuel
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Molecule
2 notesAbout molecule notes
Single aroma chemicals, named as themselves. Some occur in nature and some do not; all of them behave predictably.
Abstract
14 notesAbout abstract notes
Notes that name a sensation rather than a substance. Nothing is distilled to make them - they are an effect the perfumer builds.
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Parchment
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Steam Accord
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Hot Iron
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Chalk
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Graphite
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Porcelain
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Wet Plaster
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Holy Water
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River Notes
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Wood Sage
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Chlorinated Water
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Egg
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Animal
3 notesAbout animal notes
Materials of animal origin, and the modern reconstructions that stand in for them.
Mineral
18 notesAbout mineral notes
Stone, salt, metal and earth - the inorganic end of the vocabulary.
