Egg

Note Profile

Abstract

About

Egg is a sulphur accord, not a food note. At full strength it reads as struck matches and hot springs. At perfumery dose the sharpness drops away and what is left is cooked warmth, custard and warm butter. The same material smells like two different things depending on how much you use, and that is the single most important fact about it.

Scent Profile

Sulphurous is the note and both sources lead with it in almost the same word. Premiere Peau: 'Sulfurous, rich, and unsettling'. TheScentBase: 'sulfurous and savory'. Lactonic is the cooked side, the custard and warm butter that Premiere Peau says emerges at perfumery dose and that TheScentBase confirms independently by naming custard accords. Mineral is sourced directly: 'more mineral than civet', and the full-strength imagery of volcanic steam, hot springs and struck rock. Animalic is the underside of white flowers, named once and qualified as 'less fecal than indole'. Smoky, sweet_vanillic and creamy_woody sit below the naming line. Smoky is the struck match only, and it is deliberately small because a struck match is sulphur first and smoke second.

ScentWheel

Breadthmedium

EnvelopeTop · ~2h lasting

Family Elemental, Sweet & Gourmand

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

Origin

No egg is extracted for perfumery. Premiere Peau states plainly that no natural egg extract is used and that the effect is built from sulphur aroma chemicals: hydrogen sulphide, dimethyl sulphide, dimethyl trisulphide or house blends. The same compounds occur at trace level in narcissus and tuberose absolutes, which is why the note is described as the animalic underside of certain white flowers. There is no maker's datasheet for 'egg' and none should be expected for a molecular accord.

Usage in Perfumery

Fragrantica records six placements. Parfumo records none. TheScentBase calls it 'an oddity in perfume, usually found in custard accords' and says it serves as a foundation for sweet, vanilla, woody and lactonic accords. Premiere Peau says the dosing is critical, that sulphur compounds are detectable at parts per billion, and that 'the line between voluptuous and nauseating is measured in micrograms'.