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The drawing: wet flintThe drawing: wet flint
Wet flint

Ingredients · Earth & moss · Made in a lab

Mineral (wet stone, flint)

Stone doesn't smell by itself; the note suggests warm rock, flint sparks and dry earth.

What it is
An idea of a smell that perfumers build: there is nothing to extract it from.
How perfumers build it
Iso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet)Ambroxan (ambergris)Calone (marine notes)Aldehyde C-12 MNA (aldehydes)Vetiver
Known in
Terre d'Hermès (Hermès, 2006)

Named by the house in 9 of the 1080 perfumes read so far

Terre d'HermèsHermès · “Flint”Hawas AtlantisRasasi · “Mineral Notes”GanymedeMarc-Antoine Barrois · “mineral notes”Terre d'Hermès Eau GivréeHermès · “woody, mineral notes”Vanilla SaltEllis Brooklyn · “Mineral Accord”Hermann à mes côtés me paraissait une ombreEtat Libre d'Orange · “humid stones”
Alien Goddess Supra FloraleMugler · “mineral notes”Bois DoréVan Cleef & Arpels · “Mineral notes”Cape WrathBeauFort London · “stone”

L’Anatomie du Parfum · Perfume, taken apart.

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