

Ingredients · Leather & smoke · Made in a lab
Ink
Ink cannot be extracted; the accord suggests soot-black writing ink: a little smoky, medicinal, metallic and woody.
- What it is
- An idea of a smell that perfumers build: there is nothing to extract it from.
- How perfumers build it
- Known in
- Muse (Yves Saint Laurent, 2025)
- Worth knowing
- Black ink was long made from the soot of oil lamps, a pigment called lampblack.
Named by the house in 4 of the 1080 perfumes read so far






