Coral Limestone
Note Profile
About
Coral limestone is a reconstructed mineral accord, not an extraction. It is the smell of dry sun-warmed reef rock: chalky and faintly salty. Its job is to give an aquatic composition a dry floor instead of a wet one.
Scent Profile
Mineral is the note, and two sources reach it with the same three words: 'dry, chalky, faintly saline mineral' and 'chalky, marine, and dry'. It is the dry chalk kind, not the wet-stone kind and not the metallic kind. Powdery carries the chalk dust, and the glossary puts a 'warm stone character, powdery' in the drydown. Aquatic_ozonic is the salinity, and it is deliberately held below both of the others. The accord's stated purpose is to stop a marine composition reading wet, so a high aquatic value would contradict the one functional claim the sources make. Below the line, clean_musk and amber_resinous are the dry musks and the ambroxan that the glossary names in the build.
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Origin
There is no coral limestone material. The rock is fossilised coral reef compressed into sedimentary stone, mostly calcium carbonate, and the trade glossary that describes it states plainly that 'there is no extraction from coral limestone itself'. Perfumers build the effect instead, from Calone for marine salinity, ambroxan for mineral warmth, dry musks, and sometimes seaweed absolute for an organic edge. What the note names is a place rather than a plant, and the source gives the picture directly: 'like pressing your nose to sun-warmed limestone near the sea'.
Usage in Perfumery
Fragrantica records four placements. Parfumo records none. Its stated job is textural. It 'prevents aquatic compositions from becoming too wet or ozonic', so it sits under a marine accord as a dry base rather than carrying a composition itself.
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