Cobblestone

Note Profile

Molecule

About

Cobblestone is an atmospheric accord, not a material. It is cold wet granite with damp earth in it and a little moss from the cracks. The one source that describes it says the coldness of the stone is the dominant sensation and that everything else sits on top of that. It is darker and dirtier than a clean wet-stone accord. Only one substantive source exists, so this vector is held loosely and the spreads are wide.

Scent Profile

Mineral is the note, on the source's own ranking rather than on inference: 'The coldness of granite is the dominant sensation'. Earthy is the geosmin, which the source names as a building block and which Wikipedia describes as 'a distinct earthy or musty odor'. It is held below the published geosmin's 0.90 because the source specifies geosmin at trace level in the accord, not as its body. Aquatic_ozonic is the water. The source's description is of rain-washed stone throughout, 'released when rain hits the stone' and 'the damp mineral quality of rain-washed stone surfaces', so the damp is structural and not a garnish. Mossy_chypre is the crevices: 'Old European cobblestones often have moss and lichen in their crevices, adding a green-earthy component'. Below, green is the other half of that same sentence, smoky is the vehicle exhaust the source lists among the accumulated traces, animalic is the horse manure it names as historical, and powdery is dry stone dust. The last three carry the widest spreads in the file. The source calls this whole layer 'historical-urban complexity' and names no odour chemistry for any of it, so these are the least defensible numbers here.

ScentWheel

Breadthbroad

EnvelopeHeart · ~6h lasting

Family Elemental, Woody & Earthy

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

Origin

No plant and no molecule. Premiere Peau's own spec table says so twice: 'CAS Number N/A - olfactory concept, not a molecule' and 'Botanical Name N/A - olfactory concept'. The same source describes how it is built: 'composed from mineral, geosmin, cold-stone, and green-mossy materials', with geosmin at trace level. Geosmin is a real material and is published here as its own note. Wikipedia describes it as 'an irregular sesquiterpenoid with a distinct earthy or musty odor'. The other three components are named only by category, so what a given perfumer actually weighs out is unknown.

Usage in Perfumery

A background setting note. Premiere Peau places it in 'European-urban, rain-themed, and architectural compositions' and says it 'functions as a background atmospheric element providing urban-European setting'. Attested on 7 Fragrantica entries and absent from Parfumo. Fragrantica files it under 'Natural and synthetic, popular and weird'.