Ingredients · Florals · Made in a lab
Datura
Datura yields no essence; its night scent is caught from the living flower by headspace and rebuilt in the lab.
- What it is
- A flower that gives no oil worth extracting, so perfumers rebuild its smell from other materials.
- How perfumers build it
- Known in
- Mon Paris (Yves Saint Laurent, 2016)
- Worth knowing
- Three molecules together are enough to draw hawkmoths to sacred datura: benzyl alcohol, linalool and benzaldehyde.
Named by the house in 1 of the 1080 perfumes read so far
