Motor Oil

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Motor oil is the smell of clean lubricating oil poured from a fresh bottle, with hot metal behind it. Two independent trade sources insist it is not burnt oil and not exhaust. It reads oily, metallic and mineral rather than smoky or tarry.

Scent Profile

Motor Oil smells oily and metallic, a mineral smell rather than a chalky one, close to hot steel and polished chrome. Underneath sits a faint leathery slickness, more like the weight of a petroleum fraction than real hide. It is clean lubricating oil from a fresh bottle, not burnt oil or exhaust, so it stays smoky and tarry only at the faintest trace.

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Breadthmedium

EnvelopeBase · ~18h lasting

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Origin

A fantasy accord built from synthetic mineral and metallic materials. No extracted material exists and no fine-fragrance house publishes a datasheet for it. Indigo Fragrance builds it as engine oil over hot steel and polished chrome. Dude Candle sells it as 'clean engine oil straight from the bottle' and says three times in one paragraph that it is fresh oil, not burnt oil or exhaust fumes.

Usage in Perfumery

Used to place a fragrance in a garage or a workshop. It sits alongside gasoline, rubber and asphalt in motorsport accords, and the trade keeps the four apart even when blending them: The Candle Maker's Store lists burnt rubber, motor oil and gasoline as three separate components of one Race Fuel oil. Use it where a cold, oily metal reading is wanted without the char that asphalt and coal tar bring.