Note

Talc

Pure talc has little odor; the familiar talcum-powder scent comes from added soft flowers, musk, and sweet powdery notes. In perfume, a talc accord softens the heart and base beside iris, rose, and vanilla.

In 2 perfumes.

Found in Soft Iris and Sacred Devotion

Most popular with talc

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

Often paired with

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

Too few perfumes to say.

How it reads

Powdery and vanilla above all. Reaches for floral, mossy and aldehydic far more often than the catalogue as a whole.

  • powdery
  • vanilla
  • sweet
  • floral
  • woody
  • citrus
  • musky
  • amber