Mineral Moss

Note Profile

Mineral

About

Mineral moss is a salty, stony base effect, not a plant and not a raw material. The one brand that uses the term descriptively reads it as cold wet stone and sea salt carried on Ambroxan. Despite the name, no source gives it the damp forest-floor character of real moss.

Scent Profile

Mineral is the note and the sources are unanimous on it: "salty and stony", "cold, wet stone", "dry grey sand and sun-bleached stone", "salt crystals or wet stones". Mossy_chypre is the least supported number here and it is placed on one fact only, that Parfumo files the term in its Moss / Mossy notes category as well as its Mineral one. No prose source gives it lichen, bark or forest-floor character, so it sits far below plain moss at 0.75 and Kyoto moss at 0.72, and it carries the widest spread in the vector. Aquatic_ozonic is the brine, named directly as "the briny freshness of salt deposits or ocean air" and as "salty waves". It is held well under salt at 0.70 and Irish moss at 0.68, because the sources put the salt on dry stone and dry sand rather than in seawater. Clean_musk and amber_resinous are Ambroxan, which the coining brand names in the same sentence as the note both times it uses it. Ambroxan alone is amber_resinous, so these are the diluted trace of it in an accord, not the material itself. Earthy carries "wet earth" from the mineral-accord literature. Powdery is the "slightly powdery" of dry stone dust. Green is the only concession to the word moss in the name and nothing in the prose supports more.

ScentWheel

Breadthbroad

EnvelopeBase · ~12h lasting

Family Elemental

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

Origin

No supplier lists an essential oil, absolute or CAS number for mineral moss. Parfumo files the term under both its Mineral notes and its Moss / Mossy notes categories but publishes no odour prose of its own. The only descriptive use found is Experimental Perfume Club's own copy for Sable Gris, which pairs the term with Ambroxan: "An overdose of Ambroxan and mineral moss floods through like a wave, salty and stony." The same page adds "Dry grey sand and sun-bleached stone, the mineral tang of salt held in the air." The wider mineral-accord literature agrees on the register. Olfactive Aesthetics describes mineral notes as "reminiscent of damp concrete or river-worn stone - saline and slightly powdery, yet airy and abstract". Perfume Stars calls the effect "clean, abstract, and multifaceted, often capturing the subtle nuances of stone, salt, and wet earth".

Usage in Perfumery

Parfumo records 6 perfumes containing mineral moss and says "It often occurs in the base note of a perfume." It is used as a cold, saline floor under spice and amber materials rather than as a green or chypre element. Experimental Perfume Club uses it twice in its own range, in Sable Gris and Cardamom Moss, both times alongside Ambroxan.