Cepes

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Cepes is the absolute extracted from Boletus edulis, the porcini mushroom. It smells of raw fungus and wet forest floor, with a faint metallic edge and a nutty, cocoa-touched back end.

Scent Profile

Cepes smells raw and fungal, like a knife through a fresh porcini cap on wet, earthy forest ground. Behind it is a damp, mossy note that carries the forest floor idea into the drydown. A green, herbaceous lift keeps it vegetal rather than rotten, and a faint metallic, mineral edge runs through the mushroom smell. Further back is a raw hazelnut note and a dark cocoa touch that grows as the mushroom dries.

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Breadthmedium

EnvelopeBase · ~12h lasting

Family Woody & Earthy, Green & Aromatic

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Materials That Can Make This Note

Perfumers can build Cepes from materials such as:

1-octen-3-ol mushroom · earthy · fungal

Smell words come from published sources.

A given perfume with this note may use some of these, or something else.

Origin

Solvent extraction of the whole Boletus edulis mushroom, which grows under spruce and fir. Hermitage Oils describes the result as a dark brown absolute of thick but pourable consistency. The dominant odour compounds are 1-octen-3-ol, called mushroom alcohol, and its ketone relative 1-octen-3-one. The nose detects 1-octen-3-ol at about one part per billion, which is why a small dose reads as a whole forest.

Usage in Perfumery

Used in trace amounts as a heart-to-base accent for damp-forest realism. Perfumers reach for it in chypre, fougere and woody-vegetative accords, and it can stand in for part of what IFRA-restricted oakmoss used to do. Hermitage Oils recommends it with fougere, smoky blends, musk, forest accords and deep amber bases. Overdose it and the composition smells of soup stock.