Explaining a fragrance ingredient's origin from @fzotic

Name: Explaining a fragrance ingredient's origin from @fzotic
Uploaded: 2025-05-13T13:27:04.000Z
Duration: 70 s
Channel: fzotic
Description: A perfumer presents a mysterious dark substance, explains its 5,000-year history and connection to goats, and reveals it to be labdanum. He describes its scent profile, details how it's processed and used in amber and chypre fragrances, plugs his own upcoming perfume featuring the ingredient, and concludes by promising to share more about other perfume notes in the future.

A perfumer presents a mysterious dark substance, explains its 5,000-year history and connection to goats, and reveals it to be labdanum. He describes its scent profile, details how it's processed and used in amber and chypre fragrances, plugs his own upcoming perfume featuring the ingredient, and concludes by promising to share more about other perfume notes in the future.

Creator: @fzotic on TikTok

Transcript

This stuff isn't a lot of our favorite fragrances. I'm willing to bet you know the name, but probably you've never smelled it before. It's been in continuous use by humanity for about five thousand years. And fun fact, we wouldn't have it if it weren't for goats. Okay. So I'm gonna set this down. You'll notice it's very sticky. So about the goats. Around five thousand years ago, shepherds noticed that when their goats came home from feasting on rock roses, their beards were matted with this resi

Topics: Beauty, History, Cosmetics / Skincare

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