Scent Word of the Week: Accessory
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Accessory: What Does it Mean in Perfumery?
The word accessory, when used in the context of perfumery, is an adjective, and is this week’s scent word. It contributes to the overall fragrance either in a subtle or major way. Set aside from top, middle, and base perfumery notes, an accessory perfumery note is one which takes practice to use.
Examples of accessory notes include:
coffee (Coffea arabica)
chocolate (Theobroma cacao)
honey (Apis mellifera)
oakwood (Quercus robur).
Sometimes one drop of an accessory note is enough (depending on the size of your sample). If you add too much, it may ruin a fragrance whereas if you add too little, it may not add anything to a fragrance.
My fragrance Brown-eyed Brooks contains the accessory note of coffee.
What accessory notes are you familiar with in perfumery? What accessory note would you like to see in a fragrance? Drop me your thoughts in the comments below.
“Coffee smells like freshly ground heaven.”
Jessi Lane Adams