Rice Steam
Note Profile
About
The vapour phase of a cooked-rice accord. Dry starch and clean warmth, caught at the moment a rice cooker is opened, before the milky body of the grain appears. Diptyque names it as a discrete accord in L'Eau Papier, where it faceted white musk to suggest the grain of paper.
Scent Profile
Rice Steam smells starchy and powdery, like the moment a rice cooker is opened. It carries a clean, soft musk quality, used to suggest the grain of paper. A faint nutty note from the grain itself sits underneath, before the milky body of cooked rice appears. It is dry warmth rather than a soft, cosmetic powder.
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Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.
ScentArt
Materials That Can Make This Note
Perfumers can build Rice Steam from materials such as:
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2-acetyl-1-pyrroline
Smell words come from published sources.
A given perfume with this note may use this material, or something else.
Origin
Not a distilled material. It is a built accord. Premiere Peau describes rice accords as reconstructions from starchy-powdery molecules such as methyl laitone and Habanolide, faint grain-like maltol and furfural traces, and a clean base of Hedione or a rice-water type. No manufacturer document names a rice-steam base, so the composition above is Premiere Peau's account of rice accords in general, not of this one.
Usage in Perfumery
A texture layer, not a subject. In L'Eau Papier it sits under white musks and gives them a dry, papery starchiness. Attested on 7 Parfumo entries across 6 brands. Use it where a musk or a soft floral needs a grain-dry surface rather than a gourmand body.
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Perfumes featuring Rice Steam
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