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EDC · 2022
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Pink Crystal
Note Profile
About
Pink Crystal is a brand fantasy term with no fixed referent. Two perfumes use it and their houses describe it differently. The only source willing to commit calls it a synthetic with rose directions that works as a fragrance booster, which is a function rather than a smell.
Scent Profile
Pink Crystal has no fixed smell of its own, only a rose direction that one description points to. It is guessed to read sweet, like sugar and fruit, though nobody commits to the claim outright. A powdery quality is listed alongside it in other accords it appears in.
ScentWheel
Breadthbroad
EnvelopeHeart · ~4h lasting
Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.
ScentArt
Seen in
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Origin
No manufacturer publishes a raw material under this name. Givaudan, Firmenich, IFF and Symrise were checked and none lists it. The term reads as house language applied after the fact to a synthetic the perfumer already used. The one first-party account, a Brazilian trade piece on Água de Cheiro's Absinto Privé, describes it as 'nota sintética com direções de rosas, que atua como potencializador da fragrância' - a synthetic note with rose directions that acts as a booster of the fragrance.
Usage in Perfumery
Fragrantica records 6 placements. Parfumo records none. The note encyclopaedia indexes two perfumes. In Killer Oud's Nights of Arabia (2020) it sits in the heart with black violet, leather and rose. In Água de Cheiro's Absinto Privé it sits with jasmine and litchi in a white floral, fruity, tropical frame. Floral company in both is the single point of agreement between the two uses.
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Perfumes featuring Pink Crystal
A selection of reviewed perfumes where Pink Crystal appears prominently.