Industrial Glue

Note Profile

Prepared

About

Industrial glue is a fantasy accord, not a material anyone sells. It is built to smell of solvent cement: a sharp chemical burst with an ethyl-acetate fruitiness under it, and a hard, raw, non-organic edge that is the point of the note. It fades fast to a faint chemical sweetness. Confidence is low because two of the four sources describe one perfume rather than the accord in general, and because the character the sources call dominant has no facet in this vocabulary.

Scent Profile

Mineral leads and carries the raw industrial identity: the hard, inorganic, new-plastic read that reviewers reach for when they write polystyrene, acetone and enamel paint. It is scored at the level of vinyl and gasoline rather than of ink or concrete, because glue is a volatile solvent smell and not a stone one. Fruity is second and is the best-evidenced single claim in the dossier, because both non-perfume sources name ethyl acetate, which is fruity-sweet in isolation. Sour carries the sharpness. Two sources use the word sharp and one calls it a headrush, and in this vocabulary the acetate bite has nowhere else to sit. Under the line: sweet_vanillic is the 'chemical-sweet' trace that Premiere Peau reports for the middle and late stages, leather and smoky come from the Fraunhofer list of real adhesive odorants and from the brown packing-tape accord it is always paired with, amber_resinous and earthy sit for the tacky-resin and mouldy readings that one source each mentions in passing.

ScentWheel

Breadthbroad

EnvelopeTop · ~2h lasting

Family Fruity, Elemental

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

Origin

There is no purchasable perfumery base called industrial glue. Every source describes either a bespoke in-house accord or the real chemistry of adhesives. The one fragrance actually built on it, Comme des Garcons (2011) by Antoine Lie, pairs it in the top with a second fantasy note, parcel tape, which this repository rejects as attested once. Premiere Peau's ingredient glossary gives the only treatment that is not tied to that perfume, and it names ethyl acetate as the carrier. Fraunhofer Institute research on real adhesives, reported by Phys.org, found actual glue odorants spanning pungent, fruity, leathery, smoky and mouldy. That is wider than what perfumery reconstructs, so the note is a recognisable caricature of adhesive, not a faithful copy of one.

Usage in Perfumery

A top-note shock effect. Attested on 14 Fragrantica entries and 0 Parfumo entries, with Fragrantica filing it under 'Natural and synthetic, popular and weird' and calling it a novelty note. Perfumers use it to open a composition with something that reads as manufactured rather than grown, then let it burn off within a couple of hours. Its documented partners are other synthetic-object notes: parcel tape, polystyrene, enamel paint, plus musk and styrax to give the illusion something to sit on.