Wet Plaster

Note Profile

Abstract

About

Chalk and cream at the same time. The one reviewer who describes the note in a real fragrance uses the phrase 'earthy pastry cream', and that pairing is the note: a damp mineral body with a soft, almost edible texture under it, not a dry chalk scratch.

Scent Profile

Mineral leads and comes from one word in one source, 'chalky', so the spread of 0.22 is as large as the value is confident. It is held well below chalk and concrete, which both sit at 0.88, because the same source refuses to let the note be dry: it is 'chalky and creamy at the same time'. Lactonic is that creamy half and it is the facet that earns this note a row. Chalk and concrete both carry zero lactonic, and 'earthy pastry cream' is not a phrase anyone reaches for about either. Powdery is the dust that comes with chalk, held under chalk's 0.52 because wet plaster is not yet dust. Earthy carries both the 'earthy' in 'earthy pastry cream' and the damp-monastery setting. Aquatic_ozonic is the wet in the name, and concrete carries 0.22 for the same wet-pour reason. Under the reported band, sweet_vanillic for the pastry side of the same phrase, clean_musk, and cooling_mentholic- the source calls the note cool, but that is a word about texture and not about camphor, so almost nothing is scored for it.

ScentWheel

Breadthmedium

EnvelopeBase · ~12h lasting

Family Elemental

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

Origin

A fantasy note. It names a building material, so there is no plant and no molecule behind it and no supplier literature to read. Plaster is gypsum or lime mixed with water, and the note is the smell of it while it is still wet on a wall. Any perfume using the name is using a built accord. The best-documented use is Bruno Fazzolari's Monserrat, where plaster is a named base note and the reviewer reports it as 'really there' rather than as a suggestion.

Usage in Perfumery

A base texture for architectural, monastic and cold-interior compositions. It puts a cool, substantial floor under a fragrance without the tar of asphalt or the outdoor rain of petrichor. Attested on 4 Fragrantica note listings and on no Parfumo placement. Reach for it where chalk is too dry and concrete too industrial, because the creamy half is what separates it from both.