Leather and iris

A composed leather image, from dry hide and supple suede to a darker smoky edge. It can give flowers, woods or sweet notes a drier, tactile contrast. Leather effects can be built with fragrant materials; Givaudan’s Isobutyl Quinoline-2 is one leathery example, not identification of every leather accord. The note does not prove an animal-hide extract or disclose the perfume’s formula.

A cool powdery impression recalling cosmetic powder, violet and dry roots, sometimes with a soft woody or carrot-like edge. Iris gives flowers a velvety texture and softens the meeting of musk and woods. Perfumery orris is associated with the rhizome rather than the flower, but an unqualified iris label does not establish a species, origin, natural extract or extraction method.