Ingredients · Woods · dry-down

Cashmeran

Say itKASH-muh-ran

Soft, musky-woody, spicy-fruity and piney, like warm cashmere or dusty velvet.

What it is

A molecule made in a lab, first made by IFF in 1969.

When you smell it

Dry-down: what stays.

What perfumers do with it

Adds diffuse, cosy musky-wood warmth and a textural cashmere softness to woody and ambery accords.

Worth knowing

Named after the fabric, not a tree: 'cashmere wood' in a note list usually means this synthetic.

Known in

Cashmere Mist (Donna Karan, 1994)

Rules

Limited. IFRA 49th Amendment limits for sensitisation and systemic toxicity.

Also called

DPMI; 1,1,2,3,3-pentamethyl-tetrahydroinden-4-one; 'cashmere wood'

Named by the house, not on the label, in 46

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