Ingredients · Musks · dry-down
Muscone
Say itMUS-kohn
Soft, warm, clean animalic musk; skin-like, powdery and very tenacious.
- What it is
- A molecule made in a lab.
- When you smell it
- Dry-down: what stays.
- What perfumers do with it
- Recreates the heart of natural musk; adds sensual warmth, radiance and extreme fixation.
- Worth knowing
- Heinrich Walbaum isolated it from deer musk in 1906; Leopold Ruzicka proved its large-ring structure in 1926.
- Also called
- 3-Methylcyclopentadecanone; racemic muscone
Named by the house, not on the label, in 3
