Limestone

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About

Limestone is a reconstructed mineral accord. It is the smell of dry sedimentary rock: chalky dust over cool cavern wall. Nothing is extracted from the rock.

Scent Profile

Limestone smells of dry sedimentary rock, a mineralised, slightly citrus dust over cool cavern wall. A chalky, powdery dust sits close behind.

ScentWheel

Breadthmedium

EnvelopeBase · ~10h lasting

Family Elemental, Floral

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

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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. 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'.