Ingredients · Musks · dry-down

Musk ambrette

Say itMusk am-BRET

Sweet, heavy, powdery-floral musk with an ambrette-seed nuance.

What it is

A molecule made in a lab.

Where it comes from

a methoxy dinitrotoluene derivative

When you smell it

Dry-down: what stays.

What perfumers do with it

Formerly a favorite nitro musk for rich powdery bases; entirely removed from modern perfumery.

Worth knowing

It caused photoallergy, skin rashes triggered by sunlight, which helped end its reign as a popular musk.

Rules

Not allowed. Prohibited by IFRA and EU: photoallergy and neurotoxicity.

Also called

2,6-Dinitro-3-methoxy-4-tert-butyltoluene