Ingredients · Earth & moss · heart note

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Fresh-cut mushroom, earthy-metallic and slightly green, like damp forest floor.

What it is

A molecule made in a lab.

Where it comes from

occurs in mushrooms, made synthetically for perfumery

When you smell it

Heart: as it settles.

What perfumers do with it

Adds mushroomy, undergrowth realism to woody, mossy and lavender accords in tiny amounts.

Worth knowing

Mosquitoes home in on it in human breath and sweat; it also helps create the metallic smell of blood on skin.

Also called

Mushroom alcohol; matsutake alcohol; amyl vinyl carbinol