Amber · Musk · Leather

What holds it together

Five facets that share a job rather than a smell. They are the slowest-moving materials in perfumery. They are what remains after twelve hours. They are the part of a fragrance that reads as belonging to a body rather than to a bottle.

Notes strongest in Amber · Musk · Leather

Strongest first. A note's family value is the highest of its member facets, not their average - averaging would let a note that is emphatically one thing and nothing else read as weak, which is the opposite of what the family is for.

• Tobacco Honey Fruity Base · ~30h Botanical 1,302
• Labdanum Smoky Honey Base · ~40h Botanical 2,179
• Hay Vanilla Powdery Fruity Base · ~36h Botanical 171
• Flouve Vanilla Honey Aromatic Base · ~34h Botanical
• Habanolide® Mineral Base · ~40h Molecule
• Liatris Spicata Vanilla Base · ~30h Botanical
• Musk Base · ~48h Animal 14,931
• Myrrh Phenolic Earthy Base · ~36h Botanical 772
• Linen Aquatic Aldehydic Mineral Heart · ~8h Prepared 40
• Cuban Cigar Dry Wood Base · ~28h Prepared
• Goat Hair Base · ~36h Animal
• Isobutyl Quinoline Dry Wood Mossy Earthy Base · ~40h Molecule
• Nirvanolide® Lactonic Base · ~30h Molecule
• Pipe Tobacco Honey Vanilla Base · ~26h Botanical
• Straw Vanilla Base · ~24h Abstract
• Suederal® Base · ~30h Molecule
• Skatole Base · ~30h Molecule
• Amber Vanilla Base · ~48h Abstract 10,081
• Leather Smoky Base · ~48h Prepared 2,983
• Styrax Smoky Warm Spice Vanilla Base · ~36h Botanical 419

The facets in it

The facets are the coordinate system; the family is how it is read. Every one of these is measured separately, and a note carries a value on all of them at once.

The other families

Every other family gathers the same 34 facets a different way.

Keep going

• The 34 facets What each one covers, where it stops, and the substances that carry it
• The 10 families How the 34 are gathered, and why a family value is a max and not a mean
• How it is built The five layers, from CAS numbers up to the families a shopper browses