Ingredients · Sweet · Made in a lab
Rice
No rice extract was found for sale to perfumers; the warm, milky smell of steamed rice is built around roasted-grain molecules.
- What it is
- Something that grows but gives no oil worth extracting, so perfumers rebuild its smell from other materials.
- How perfumers build it
- 2-Acetylpyridine, not in Ingredients yet2-Acetylthiazole, not in Ingredients yetMethyl laitone, not in Ingredients yet
Maltol (spun sugar)Furfural, not in Ingredients yet - Known in
- L'Eau Papier (Diptyque, 2023)
- Worth knowing
- One molecule, 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, gives basmati rice, pandan leaf and fresh bread their smell; many people say it smells of hot buttered popcorn.
Named by the house in 3 of the 1080 perfumes read so far
