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At a glance
A newer niche category built on synthetic notes evoking concrete, metal, rain-on-asphalt (petrichor), ink, or paper — scent divorced from anything botanical or animal.
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A newer niche category built almost entirely on synthetic notes — concrete, metal, rain-on-asphalt (petrichor), ink, paper — deliberately divorced from anything botanical or animal. A distinctly 21st-century development, driven by advances in synthetic aroma chemistry.