Amber, musk and leather notes

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Amber, musk and leather notes smell warm, soft and close to the skin: resins, clean or animal musks, hide and cured tobacco. They move slowly and are still there hours later, so they read as part of the wearer rather than the bottle. This list is the notes that lean on this family more than on any other.

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Fresh Floral Fruity Green Sweet Spicy Woody Amber Elemental Waxy

Botanical

67 notes
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Plants, and what is pressed, distilled or extracted straight from them - peel, petal, resin, root, wood, leaf.

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Prepared

29 notes
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Materials that only exist because something was done to them: roasted, burnt, tanned, fermented, cured, cooked.

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Molecule

62 notes
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Single aroma chemicals, named as themselves. Some occur in nature and some do not; all of them behave predictably.

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Abstract

15 notes
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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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Animal

16 notes
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Materials of animal origin, and the modern reconstructions that stand in for them.

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