BBQ

Note Profile

Animal

About

BBQ is a built accord, not a material. Premiere Peau calls it "not a single molecule but a reconstructed accord" and names the parts: guaiacol, cade oil, birch tar and caramelised sugar. The effect aimed at is grilled meat over wood, so the smoke is carried with a savoury edge and a burnt-sugar sweetness on top of it. That sweetness is what separates it from plain smoke. Perfumers use it as a base-level effect and it is rare. Fragrantica lists 5 perfumes, Parfumo none, and Fragrantica's own summary calls it a novelty item.

Scent Profile

Smoky leads and is the only facet every source agrees on: "rich, smoky, and slightly charred", built on guaiacol's "phenolic, smoky, and medicinal" impact and birch tar's "tarry, acrid" blast. Sweet_vanillic is what makes it BBQ and not tar. The accord is defined as carrying "caramelized sugar qualities", guaiacol dries down to "warm, resinous smoke... with a vanillic sweetness", and birch tar hides a "burnt-sugar undertone from pyrolysis byproducts". Animalic for the grilled meat itself, named as "a provocative animalic warmth distinct from traditional musks". Leather comes with the birch tar, whose leather is "not clean or suede-like but raw and animalic, recalling tanning vats and smoked hides". Dry_woody for the "toasted wood" the source names directly. Sulphurous carries the "savory quality" of cooked meat, the Maillard side that no single smoke material supplies. Under sit tobacco_hay for guaiacol's low-dose "smoked ham, hearth embers, black tea dried over pine", mineral for char and ash, amber_resinous for the warm resinous body under the phenol, and warm_spice, which is the weakest value here because no source names a spice.

ScentWheel

Breadthbroad

EnvelopeBase · ~12h lasting

Family Woody & Earthy, Sweet & Gourmand, Amber · Musk · Leather

Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.

Origin

Synthetic and reconstructed. No plant or animal yields it. The published build is guaiacol for the phenolic smoke signal, cade oil for dry ash, birch tar for the tarry and hide-like weight, and caramelised sugar materials for the glaze. Premiere Peau describes guaiacol on its own as "creosote without the soot, smoked meat without the meat", and birch tar as a "harsh phenolic blast" with a raw, tanning-vat leather quality. The queue record tags this note referent_type "animal". That is a tagging artefact. Every source calls it a synthetic reconstruction.

Usage in Perfumery

A base effect used in small doses. It sits with leather, tobacco and dark woods, where Premiere Peau says "the smoky-sweet duality works alongside" them. In avant-garde work it supplies what that source calls "a provocative animalic warmth distinct from traditional musks". Overdose reads as creosote or a bonfire rather than food, because the phenolic parts carry much further than the caramel.