Slate
Note Profile
About
Slate is a fantasy mineral note. It stands for cold wet rock rather than for any distillable material. Perfumers build it the way they build the rest of the mineral family, from ozonic and woody-amber synthetics rather than from stone.
Scent Profile
Slate smells of cold, wet rock, stone and flint with a clean, inorganic chill. A wet, marine freshness runs alongside it, salty and aqueous rather than dry. A dry, woody note sits underneath and gives it a dry edge. A faint, damp earthy trace closes it.
ScentWheel
Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.
ScentArt
Origin
There is no slate raw material. No supplier or manufacturer sells an olfactive-description sheet for anything called slate, and none was found for this note. The mineral effect is compounded. Premium Beauty News names the working materials: Calone-type ozonics for the wet, iodised, seaside-rock impression, Symrise's Symmarine for wet cold metallic facets, and Symrise's Ambrostar for a dry woody note with a contrasting mineral facet. Premiere Peau adds Ambroxan at threshold and crystalline musks as the materials the brain reads as stone. Atelier Materi's Rose Ardoise, the one commercial fragrance that puts the French word for slate in its name, reaches the effect through sage and a concrete-ground framing, not through any slate ingredient.
Usage in Perfumery
Slate is used to make a composition read cold and modern rather than warm. Premium Beauty News notes that mineral notes last, extending their freshness into the heart and the drydown, which is why the effect is built on woody-amber and musk materials. Expect it in minimalist and avant-garde briefs.
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Perfumes featuring Slate
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