Veloutone

Note Profile

Molecule

About

Veloutone is a Firmenich captive, CAS 65443-14-3. It smells of jasmine over a soft fruit lactone, peach and apricot with a creamy body, and a faint lavender lift. Its working value is stability: it holds a soft floral effect where more fragile jasmine materials fail.

Scent Profile

Lactonic leads because it is the one facet all three sources name. Perfumer and Flavorist gives 'lactonic fruity odor, reminiscent of peach and apricot' and DirectPCW gives 'velvety peach, ripe apricot, and creamy plum-lychee'. It is held under peach at 0.92 because the fruit here is a texture on a floral, not the fruit itself. White_floral is the jasmine, named directly as an odour by Perfumer and Flavorist and supported by ScenTree's 'wonderful soft floral note' in jasmine and tuberose work. It sits below lactonic because ScenTree's jasmine evidence is a use claim and only one source calls jasmine the smell. Fruity is the stone fruit read as fruit rather than as cream, and it stays under the lactonic because both sources hyphenate the pair with the lactone first. Floral is the muguet and lilac end, softer and less indolic than the jasmine. Clean_musk is DirectPCW's 'slightly musky in the background', single-sourced and scored at the level it is described. Below the reported band, aromatic_herbal is the 'hint of lavender' both ScenTree and Perfumer and Flavorist mention, and tropical is the lychee DirectPCW alone names. Sweet_vanillic is a trace for the creaminess, no more.

ScentWheel

Breadthmedium

EnvelopeBase · ~24h lasting

Family Sweet & Gourmand, Floral, Fruity

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

Origin

A synthetic. ScenTree records it as discovered in 1976 and part of the Hedione family, a by-product of methyl jasmonate synthesis, and states plainly that it 'is not reported to be found in nature. It is neither available as natural ingredient.' Firmenich has held the Veloutone trademark since 18 January 2012. Perfumer and Flavorist lists it as Firmenich 990257.

Usage in Perfumery

A heart-to-base floral modifier with unusual stability. ScenTree says it 'has very wide use because of its exceptional stability' and names jasmine, tuberose, honeysuckle, muguet and lilac accords, plus fruity, lavender and herbal work. Use it to hold a soft floral through a harsh base such as a detergent or a soap. Attested on 2 Fragrantica note listings and 1 Parfumo placement across 1 brand, which understates its real use because captives are rarely printed on a note list.