Catalog insights · Notes

Notes through time

How perfumery's ingredient palette shifted across 20 decades - from 1830 to 2029, traced through 26,946 releases with a launch year.

Decades
20
Top notes tracked
10
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2015-2025 vs 1990-2009

Timeline

Focus: 2020s

Era focus

Top notes · 2020s

Share of note mentions in the focused decade - updates as you move the timeline.

Palette

Composition over decades

Stream, rank race, or share curves for the ten most frequent notes. Click a note in the legend to isolate it.

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What rose and what faded

2015-2025 vs 1990-2009 - percentage-point change in note share.

Rising notes

  1. Saffron +6.27 pp
  2. Pink Pepper +5.16 pp
  3. Labdanum +5.0 pp
  4. Agarwood (Oud) +4.77 pp
  5. Ambergris +4.44 pp
  6. Leather +4.03 pp
  7. Vanilla +3.69 pp
  8. Tobacco +3.12 pp

Fading notes

  1. Musk -12.54 pp
  2. Jasmine -12.31 pp
  3. Sandalwood -10.86 pp
  4. Mandarin Orange -10.29 pp
  5. Lily-of-the-Valley -9.2 pp
  6. Amber -9.05 pp
  7. Rose -8.96 pp
  8. Bergamot -7.02 pp

Method

Notes are merged from top, heart, and base pyramids; each note is counted once per fragrance. Only releases with a parseable launch year are included.

Stream view normalizes the top ten notes within each decade to 100%. Rank race orders those notes by share per decade.