Ingredients · Sweet · Made in a lab

Pandan

Pandan leaves hold only traces of oil, so the note is built to suggest warm jasmine rice and a soft green leaf.

What it is

Something that grows but gives no oil worth extracting, so perfumers rebuild its smell from other materials.

What the real thing smells of

2-Acetyl-1-pyrroline, not in Ingredients yetAldehyde C-9 (aldehydes)Phenylacetaldehyde, not in Ingredients yetalpha-Ionone (powder puff)

Known in

White Rice (d'Annam, 2023)

Worth knowing

Pandan leaves hold about twenty times more 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, the smell of basmati rice, than basmati rice does.

Named by the house in 1 of the 1080 perfumes read so far

White Riced'Annam · “Pandan”