Ingredients · Leather & smoke · Made in a lab
Black lacquer
Lacquer is a cured tree sap with only a faint smell; the accord suggests a hard, glossy black finish on wood.
- What it is
- An idea of a smell that perfumers build: there is nothing to extract it from.
- How perfumers build it
- Known in
- Black Lacquer (Tom Ford, 2024)
- Worth knowing
- True lacquer is sap tapped from the Chinese lacquer tree, and it holds urushiol, an allergenic irritant.
Named by the house in 1 of the 1080 perfumes read so far
