Limestone

Note Profile

Mineral

About

Limestone is a reconstructed mineral accord. It is the smell of dry sedimentary rock: chalky dust over cool cavern wall, with a faint warm cast from sun-baked stone. Nothing is extracted from the rock.

Scent Profile

Mineral is the note and the only claim both sources support: 'a mineralized, slightly citrus aroma' from the review, and dry calcium carbonate dust from the glossary. It sits just below chalk at 0.88 and coral-limestone at 0.90 because limestone is the general rock rather than either dry-dust special case. Powdery is that carbonate dust, put a step under chalk's 0.52 because a cavern wall is a solid surface and not a stick of blackboard chalk. Earthy is the cavern and the abandoned wall, a damp cool underside that chalk's cliff-dust reading does not carry. Aquatic_ozonic is the cool damp of the same picture, held to a trace because no source says wet. Amber_resinous comes from the one composition resting 'in frankincense and muhuhu', which is the formula's base rather than the stone. Clean_musk is how a dry mineral is carried in practice. Citrus is deliberately low against a source that names it, and the reason is stated: the fragrance reviewed contains actual dried lime, and its name is a pun on lime plus stone, so the citrus in that review is the formula and the wordplay, not the rock. The spread on citrus, wide enough for a re-scorer to overturn that call.

ScentWheel

Breadthmedium

EnvelopeBase · ~10h lasting

Family Elemental, Floral

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

Origin

There is no limestone material. The rock is calcium carbonate, and the one trade glossary that names limestone dust does so inside its entry for chalk: 'Chalk as a fragrance note refers to the smell of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) in its compressed, dusty form - blackboard chalk, chalk cliffs, limestone dust.' Perfumers build the impression instead. The only composition found under this name, Thorn & Bloom's Limestone, reaches it with dried lime, green pepper and coriander over choya nakh, then rests it on frankincense and muhuhu, which CaFleureBon describes as leaving 'a mineralized, slightly citrus aroma on the skin'.

Usage in Perfumery

Parfumo records 2 placements across 2 brands. Fragrantica records none. Only one of the two fragrances was identified, so this vector is built on half its attested use. The imagery the one review gives is architectural rather than geological: 'the limestone walls of a cavern, or the forgotten walls of an abandoned homestead'.