Spray Paint
Note Profile
About
The smell of an aerosol can of paint going off. Cold, metallic and synthetic, with a solvent bite behind it. It arrives all at once and is gone in minutes.
Scent Profile
Spray Paint smells cold, hard and metallic, the way an aerosol can reads the instant it goes off. A sharp, sour solvent bite runs right behind it, like rubbing alcohol or fresh acetone. It arrives all at once and burns off just as fast. Nothing about it is soft or warm.
ScentWheel
Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.
ScentArt
Origin
Prepared. No perfumery material is called spray paint. The real product is a solvent aerosol, and the two safety data sheets found describe its odour in two phrases: 'characteristic odor of paint' (Chase Products) and 'Strong (aromatics)' (Harris Paints). Their ingredient lists are acetone, low-odour mineral spirits, naphtha and a propane/n-butane propellant. A perfumer reconstructs that from solvent-reading and metallic-reading synthetics, the same shelf that builds vinyl, ink and gasoline.
Usage in Perfumery
13 Fragrantica perfumes, absent from Parfumo. Used as a shock opening in conceptual work rather than as a body. Parfumo reviewers of Bohoboco Plum Spray Paint, the one carrier that yielded citable outside commentary, describe it as an assault that the plum then has to carry.
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