Metal

Note Profile

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About

Cold struck steel. A constructed accord, not an extract, built to read as iron and blood.

Also Known As

Metallic Notes, Metallic, Metallic Nuances

Scent Profile

Metal smells mineral and slightly electric, like the taste of a bitten lip rather than a handful of stones. It reads as metal, not stone, with a tang of blood running through it. A mushroom-like, fungal earthy undertone runs alongside the metallic edge. A pre-storm, charged freshness and a faint green, metallic nuance round it out.

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Materials That Can Make This Note

Perfumers can build Metal from materials such as:

1-octen-3-one mushroom · metallic · cabbage

Smell words come from published sources.

A given perfume with this note may use some of these, or something else.

Origin

Not a natural material. Premiere Peau states it plainly: metal is 'not a naturally extracted material' but 'a perfumery reconstruction or concept accord'. Both glossary sources name the same three building blocks: 1-octen-3-one, the mushroom-metallic ketone; trans-4,5-epoxy-(E)-2-decenal, which the trade calls the 'bloody aldehyde'; and rose oxide for a green-metallic edge. No manufacturer publishes a material branded 'Metal', so what a given perfumer means by the note is their own accord.

Usage in Perfumery

Heart note. CA Perfume places metallic materials as 'heart notes rather than top or base notes, with moderate volatility'. Parfumo attests the term in 13 placements across 10 brands, Comme des Garcons' Odeur 53 and Odeur 71 among them. Fragrantica has no page for it.