Ingredients · Earth & moss · Made in a lab

Truffle

No truffle extract was found for sale to perfumers; its damp, garlicky earth is suggested with sulphur molecules and mushroom materials.

What it is

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

How perfumers build it

2,4-Dithiapentane, not in Ingredients yetDimethyl sulfide, not in Ingredients yet1-Octen-3-olMushroom extract (Paris mushroom)

Known in

Black Orchid (Tom Ford, 2006)

Worth knowing

Most truffle oil holds no truffle: it is oil flavoured with a lab-made molecule such as 2,4-dithiapentane.

Named by the house in 4 of the 1080 perfumes read so far

Bad Boy CobaltCarolina Herrera · “Truffle Accord”Bad Boy Cobalt AbsoluteCarolina Herrera · “White Truffel”Bad Boy Cobalt ElixirCarolina Herrera · “Black Truffle”Black OrchidTom Ford · “Black Truffle”