Skatole

 

                                                                              Perfume

 

 

                                                                              Skatole 

 

 

 

Perhaps the most famous perfume to feature skatole in doses that should perhaps be illegal was Nuit de Chine (Chinese Nights) by Maurice Schaller in 1913 for Les Parfums de Rosine. Nuit de Chine was a fougere (fern) type perfume built around a core of sandalwood, skatole, peach, and rose. When you smell this fragrance, the skatole makes its presence known from the get-go, but it is so perfectly balanced with the other ingredients that you can’t stop sniffing it.

  Chanel No 5, which was formulated around a whopping 15 percent of deer musk tincture and 15 percent of civet tincture

 

 

 

 

 

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