Tires

Note Profile

Abstract

About

Tires is black rubber over hot road: smoky, sulphurous and leathery, with a petrol-metallic edge behind it. It is an industrial reference smell built from synthetics, not a material anyone extracts.

Scent Profile

Smoky is the dominant facet and every source leads with it: 'a distinctive, slightly smoky scent profile', 'the smokiness of the tobacco mixed with the leather gives off more of a burnt tire scent', 'a sharp hit of smoked rubber'. Sulphurous is the one number here that is inferred rather than quoted, and it is stated rather than smuggled in. No source in this dossier names sulphur, but tire rubber is vulcanised with it and the published rubber note carries sulphurous for the same referent. Zeroing it would invent a perceptual gap from rubber that nobody claims, so it is set at half of rubber's value with the widest spread in the vector,. Leather is the nearest named neighbour in two sources, 'earthy, industrial, and leathery undertones' and 'pairs beautifully with leather, woody, and smoky notes'. Mineral is the road and the machine: motor oil 'rich, metallic', hot asphalt, high-octane fuel, and V Perfumes' account of asphalt smelling of diesel and kerosene. It is held at 0.35 rather than higher because that petrol material comes from the one product that escalates past tire into full motorsport, and a buyer of that product complained it read 'more racing fuel smell than burnt rubber'. Below: earthy for Agoratopia's 'earthy, industrial' pairing, animalic as the rubber-and-hide edge that leather brings, dry_woody and amber_resinous as traces of the smoky-woody company the note keeps, and sweet_vanillic for the faint sweetness the published rubber note carries.

ScentWheel

Breadthbroad

EnvelopeBase · ~30h lasting

Family Woody & Earthy, Elemental, Amber · Musk · Leather

Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.

Origin

There is no tire extract and no aromachemical sold under this name. Agoratopia is explicit that the note 'is typically recreated using synthetic molecules that mimic its distinct aroma', and describes the target smell as 'new tires or rubber soles'. Brands that commit to the theme widen it into a whole automotive accord: Wicked Good's pyramid runs smoked rubber over motor oil into hot asphalt and high-octane fuel. Real tire rubber is vulcanised with sulphur, which is where the sulphurous reading comes from, though none of the sources reached said so.

Usage in Perfumery

A base accord for motorsport, garage and urban themes. The trade keeps it apart from its neighbours rather than merging them, listing burnt rubber, motor oil and gasoline as separate components of one race accord. Use it where asphalt is too tarry and rubber too clean. It pairs with leather, tobacco and smoky woods, and V Perfumes notes that leather plus tobacco alone already reads to many wearers as burnt tire.