Pell Wall Perfumes: Animalic, warm, sweet, over-ripe fruit
Arctander describes some of the uses of this material: “skatole is used in perfume compositions and in artificial civet bases. minute traces of this material may introduce just that natural note of overmature flower’ or forest-floor’ or other natural decomposition matter, which can be not only tolerable to a fragrance, but sometimes make it much more attractive.” he goes on to say that, at the time of his writing in the late 1960s, “many perfumers have never used skatole, and others have had poor results with it. it takes considerable patience to study the full and final effect of a certain amount of skatole in a fragrance. the material seems to grow’ after some time of ageing, and it produces more obnoxious odors with certain materials than with others. skatole gives interesting effects with sandalwood materials.”