Waxy and fatty notes
9 notesWaxy and fatty notes smell of texture: candle wax, beeswax, tallow and the soft feel of fat. They can make a flower or a food note feel creamier and more real. This list is the notes that lean on waxy more than on any other scent family.
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Open any note for what it smells like and the perfumes that wear it.
Botanical
4 notesAbout botanical notes
Plants, and what is pressed, distilled or extracted straight from them - peel, petal, resin, root, wood, leaf.
Prepared
1 noteAbout prepared notes
Materials that only exist because something was done to them: roasted, burnt, tanned, fermented, cured, cooked.
Molecule
1 noteAbout molecule notes
Single aroma chemicals, named as themselves. Some occur in nature and some do not; all of them behave predictably.
Abstract
1 noteAbout abstract notes
Notes that name a sensation rather than a substance. Nothing is distilled to make them - they are an effect the perfumer builds.
Animal
2 notesAbout animal notes
Materials of animal origin, and the modern reconstructions that stand in for them.
