Ingredients · Musks · dry-down
Musk Baur
Say itMusk BOW-ur
Sweet, powdery musk.
- What it is
- A molecule made in a lab.
- When you smell it
- Dry-down: what stays.
- What perfumers do with it
- The first synthetic musk; now obsolete, replaced by safer musks.
- Worth knowing
- Albert Baur discovered it in 1888 while trying to make a more effective version of the explosive TNT.
- Also called
- Musk toluene; Tonquinol; trinitro-tert-butyltoluene
Not on the label of any of the 1080 perfumes read so far.
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