Rain
Ingredients · Earth & moss · Made in a lab
Rain (petrichor)
Rain has no extract; the note recreates wet earth and cool air after a dry spell.
- What it is
- An idea of a smell that perfumers build: there is nothing to extract it from.
- How perfumers build it
- Worth knowing
- Australian scientists Bear and Thomas coined 'petrichor' in 1964; geosmin, made by soil bacteria, is its key molecule.
Not named by the house of any of the 1080 perfumes read so far.
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