Ingredients · Not for the smell

Cosmetic colorants (CI dyes)

Odorless.

What it is

There to carry, keep or colour the perfume, not for its smell.

What perfumers do with it

Tint the juice to match the bottle and story; used at parts per million

Worth knowing

Yellow 5 (CI 19140) is tartrazine, the same dye in soft drinks and candy.

Known in

Invictus (Paco Rabanne, 2013); La Vie est Belle (Lancôme, 2012); Twilly d'Hermès (Hermès, 2017)

Rules

Limited. Only dyes on EU and US approved lists

Also called

CI 14700 (Red 4), CI 19140 (Yellow 5), CI 42090 (Blue 1), CI 60730 (Ext. Violet 2), CI 17200 (Red 33)

On the label of 309 of the 1080 perfumes read so far

No. 5Chanel · printed “Ci 19140 (yellow 5)”SauvageDior · printed “Ci 60730 (ext. violet 2)”ShalimarGuerlain · printed “Ci 14700 (red 4)”MitsoukoGuerlain · printed “Ci 19140 (yellow 5)”Eau SauvageDior · printed “Ci 14700 (red 4)”AngelMugler · printed “Ci 60730/ext. violet 2”

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