Note
Castoreum
Castoreum smells leathery, smoky, and animalic, with warm resinous and dried-hide nuances. Often recreated in modern perfumery, it gives the base depth and blends with woods, tobacco-like accords, and balsams.
In 66 perfumes. Usually found in the drydown.
- Opening
- 6%
- Heart
- 24%
- Drydown
- 71%
Most popular with castoreum
The best-known perfumes carrying it anywhere in the pyramid.
Mana
Nishane
Unutamam
Nishane
Afrika-Olifant
Nishane
Opus XIII Silver Oud
Amouage
Epic Man
Amouage
Memoir Woman
Amouage
Kemi
Xerjoff
Blue Hope
Xerjoff
Profumi D'Art 04 the One and Only Oud
Armaf
Profumi D'Art 13 Tanta Roba
Armaf
Oud Abramad
BDK Parfums
Hyrax
Zoologist Perfumes
Shadid
Tauer Perfumes
Alone in Babylon
Stéphane Humbert Lucas 777
Often paired with
Notes that show up next to castoreum more often than chance would predict.
How it reads
Woody and leather above all. Reaches for animalic, balsamic and warm spicy far more often than the catalogue as a whole.
- woody
- leather
- animalic
- balsamic
- sweet
- warm spicy
- citrus
- vanilla