Lost Temple
Lost Temple opens with cool mountain air and just a touch of galbanum. The heart is the almost mint-like scent of birch leaves. The dry down is a slightly smokey incense accord with the main notes of sandalwood and styrax.
Descriptors: ozone/air, forest, green, spicy, mint, incense, smoke
Ingredients: Fractionated coconut oil, fragrance, isopropyl myristate
About: I’ve been reading a lot of self-published books on Amazon lately and happened to pick up Grants Pass, a zombie anthology. One of the stories takes place outside of Kathmandu and the author’s description of the constant scent of the birch forest really stuck with me.
Notes in a perfume are single aspects of the scent. This is similar to how musical notes combine to make a chord.
Notes are not always indicative of a specific ingredient, just the single aspect of the overall scent.
- Accord - A balanced blend of notes that adds up to more than just the sum of its parts
- Agrestic - denotes herbal and/or rustic family of notes
- Allspice - cinnaminic, clove, spices, wood
- Amber - an accord of incense-related notes, usually some (or all!) of the following: vanilla, labdanum, benzoin (styrax).
- Ambergris - oceanic, animalic, musk
- Amyris - deep, earthy, wood, animalic
- Animalic - aroma ingredients that were originally sourced from living animals, almost all of these are now synthetic
- Apricot - fruity, extremely sweet, juicy, jam, honey
- Beeswax - earthy, mild, waxy, resinous
- Birch Leaf - spicy, green, forest, eucalyptus-like without the camphor, refreshing
- Black Agar (synthetic aloeswood) - extremely deep and smoky, incense, dark wood
- Black Leather - sharper and cleaner than Leather
- Blond Wood - light, transparent wood notes
- Cardamom - heady, spicy, warm, often used in tea
- Cashmeran - warm, soft, clean fur-like musk, spicy
- Cedar - deep, wood, sharp, almost animalic
- Cherry Blossom - transparent, sweet, green, fruity
- Cinnamon - bright, spice, sweet, dominant top note unless composed carefully
- Clary Sage – clean, green, diffusive, smokey, salty used to create some synthetic ambergris
- Clove - sharp, spicy, pepper, wood
- Clover - soft, sweet, green, bright, grass
- Coumarin - cherry, almonds, hay, not to be confused with the medication Coumadin
- Dark Rum - deep, smoky, booze
- Fig – warm, juicy, honey, wood, fruit, cinnaminic
- Fir Needles – forest, green, juicy, jam, camphor, Christmas tree
- Frankincense - warm, sharp, resinous, incense
- Freesia - clean, white, floral, peppery
- Geranium - leafy, floral, rose-like
- Iso E Super – warm, transparent, wood, skin enhancer, amber
- Juniper - spicy, gin, green, forest
- Kephalis - warm, transparent, wood, incense, amber
- Labdanum - resinous, amber, incense
- Leather - sharp, deep, earthy, also see Black Leather
- Myrrh - deep, resinous, earthy, sweet, dry, leathery
- Neroli - citrus, green, floral, wood
- Oak Moss - deep, earthy, moss, forest
- Ozone/Air - reminiscent of clean, odorless air, meant to invoke a sensation rather than a specific odor
- Patchouli - earthy, sweet, oily, herbal
- Pear - sweet, juicy, fruity, wood
- Plumeria (Frangipani) - fruity, floral,
- Rose - deep, floral, fruity, jam, spicy
- Rum - sweet, booze, vanillic
- Sandalwood - warm, wood, deep, may have a smoke-like aspect to it
- Styrax - resinous, incense, warm, vanillic, cinnaminic, amber
- Thyme - herbal, agrestic, spicy
- Tomato Leaf - green, earthy, sharp, astringent
- Tulip - floral, white musk, peppery
- Vanilla - Full, warm, resinous, sweet
- Vetiver - earthy, sharp, deep, grass
- Violet Leaf - green, leafy, earthy, powdery
- White Musk - a plant-based musk, cleaner and brighter than animalic musks, can mimic clean skin, can enhance the scent of the wearer's own skin as well