Creating a Leather Scent in Perfume

To build a leather accord, perfumers typically blend ingredients that provide smoky, woody, animalic, and sometimes sweet or dry nuances.

• Leather-Specific Compounds: Ingredients like Leather Cyclohexanol, Apo Patchone Coeur, Folrosia are specifically designed to impart leathery characteristics. These can form the core of your leather accord.
• Earthy/Woody Notes: Materials such as Vetimoss (related to vetiver and moss) can provide an earthy, rooty, or slightly smoky foundation that complements leather notes.
• Supporting Notes: Ingredients like Coumarin offer sweet, hay-like, or tobacco-like facets that are often used to round out and enhance leather accords, adding warmth and complexity.

Experimentation is key when creating fragrance accords. You can start with a base of leather-specific compounds and then add supporting notes like Vetimoss and Coumarin in small amounts, adjusting proportions until you achieve the desired leather profile.