Ingredients · Musks · dry-down
l-Muscone
Say itLEE-voh-MUS-kohn
Richer, more animalic and fur-like than racemic muscone.
- What it is
- A molecule made in a lab.
- When you smell it
- Dry-down: what stays.
- What perfumers do with it
- Luxury musk for deep, natural deer-musk effects and outstanding fixation.
- Worth knowing
- It is the same mirror-image form of muscone that the musk deer itself produces.
- Also called
- Muscone Laevo (dsm-firmenich); (R)-(−)-muscone
Not on the label of any of the 1080 perfumes read so far.
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