Jeans
Note Profile
About
A fantasy textile accord that reconstructs the smell of worn, washed denim. It is not new fabric off the roll. Première Peau describes three parts: a clean laundered base, a faint metallic thread standing in for indigo dye, and the warmth of the person who wore the jeans.
Scent Profile
Jeans smells of laundered cotton first, clean and low, the smell the note ends on too. A faint metallic tang stands in for the indigo dye. A thin, airy thread runs alongside it, and a crisp, soapy lift sits over the whole thing, like fresh aldehydes rather than raw cloth.
ScentWheel
Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.
ScentArt
Origin
No natural raw material and no extraction. Perfumers build the accord from clean musks for the washed-cotton base, a metallic-ozonic thread for the indigo impression, transparent musks and aldehydes for cotton-like softness, and a trace of ambrette or Cashmeran for skin warmth. Indigo dye sits on the surface of cotton rather than inside the fibre, which is why denim fades, and each wash strips a little more of the dye character out of the cloth.
Usage in Perfumery
A casual, ungendered backdrop in skin-scent, minimalist and textile-themed compositions. Pyramid placement is not fixed. Première Peau places it heart-to-base. Andrea Maack's INDIGO Extract puts a custom Jeans Accord in the top note next to Asphalt, then moves to lavender and orris over sandalwood and musks.
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