- Origin
- an accord composed by the perfumer
- Raw materials
- musks, ambergris molecules, soft skin-like notes
- Extraction
- synthesis
- Olfactory group
- musky, amber
- Position in the pyramid
- base
- Synthetic substitutes
- white musks, Ambroxan, Iso E Super
The skin accord is not leather as a material but the smell of human skin: warm, clean, fresh from a shower or after a day in the sun. The perfumer builds it from musks and ambergris molecules so the fragrance sounds like a “second skin”.
How it smells: soft, warm and intimate: clean skin, a light musky sweetness, a faintly salty and powdery shade. The skin accord sits very close to the body — you only notice it up close.
Such fragrances smell slightly different on every person: musky and ambergris molecules mingle with the skin's own scent. That is why skin-scent compositions often feel very personal — as if they were not perfume but your own smell, only better.
What it pairs with: with iris — powdery “skin”, with amber and vanilla — a warm sensual base, with flowers — “flowers on skin”, with citrus — post-shower freshness, with sandalwood — creamy skin-like wood.
Good to know: every person's skin smell is almost as individual as a fingerprint: it is how tracker dogs tell people apart.
