Ice

Metallic-cold, ozonic, and almost empty. The sharpness of cold air in the nostrils. Less wet than water, less fragrant than snow. A mineral-clean quality with a faint metallic edge. The defining quality is temperature: it should feel cold rather than smell of anything specific. Silence in scent form.

Ice is a fantasy accord in perfumery representing the olfactory experience of extreme cold. Pure water ice is technically odorless, but the human experience of ice involves specific scent associations: the metallic quality of frozen metal, the sharp ozone of cold air, and the absence of biological aromas that warmth normally produces.

The accord is built from ozonic molecules (calone, marine oxide), metallic-mineral notes, and cooling agents (menthol derivatives, WS-3, WS-23). The goal is not to smell of frozen water but to create the olfactory impression of low temperature: that specific sharpness that cold air has in the nostrils.

In composition, ice functions as a modifier in cold, winter, and minimalist compositions. It provides a temperature reference: the scent should feel cold. The note works alongside mint, eucalyptus, and metallic materials in compositions evoking glaciers, arctic landscapes, and the aesthetic of frozen stillness.

This note in Première Peau. Simili Mirage · Gravitas Capitale. Sample all seven extraits in the Discovery Set.

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