Note

Ammonia

Ammonia has a piercing, pungent smell associated with strong cleaning products. An ammoniacal impression can suggest animalic roughness in perfume, though ammonia itself is not a conventional fragrance ingredient.

In 1 perfumes.

Found in Son of the Sun

Most popular with ammonia

The best-known perfumes carrying it anywhere in the pyramid.

Often paired with

Notes that show up next to ammonia more often than chance would predict.

Too few perfumes to say.

How it reads

Balsamic and woody above all. Reaches for bitter, herbal and amber far more often than the catalogue as a whole, and rarely for vanilla.

  • balsamic
  • woody
  • citrus
  • herbal
  • bitter
  • sweet
  • amber
  • floral