Our rare White Mushroom Extract offers a rich, creamy, multi-layered mushroom aroma with earthy, woody-mossy, salty, fatty, and subtly animalic nuances. This unexpected material for perfumers lends a complex, rounded naturalness to compositions and can help create a lush forest floor for your fougère, chypre, woody, earthy, and mossy fragrances.

Extracted at our facility in France, our White Mushroom Extract is produced from the stems and caps of Agaricus bisporus mushrooms grown and harvested year-round. In a proprietary process similar to liquid-liquid extraction, the dried mushrooms are dissolved into a natural solvent (coconut-derived MCT oil) to gently separate their aromatic compounds. The result is a concentrated mushroom extract held within a base of 98% MCT oil, capturing the mushroom’s distinctive aroma and character.

In fragrance compositions, White Mushroom Extract can add depth to leather, musk, and woody bases as well as agrestic notes such as Tobacco and Hay. It can also enhance amylaceous (starchy) notes like Barley Extract, Roasted, and add dimension to salicylic materials like Tuberose, Orange Blossom, and other white florals. It blends particularly well with Vetiver, Patchouli, and Oakmoss for atmospheric ‘wet soil’ effects, while small amounts can soften and round Rose accords.

While unapologetically gourmand, White Mushroom Extract has a fresh smoothness, soft authenticity, and modest tenacity that make it stand apart from mushroom absolutes which can be more intense and overwhelmingly umami. Used with a careful hand, it can impart delicate creaminess to a wide range of materials, from Agarwood and Cocoa to Rose and Orris Root, without overpowering.

According to Elena Prokofeva at Fragrantica, several new mushroom-forward fragrances have appeared on the market, some evoking the scent of a wet forest after rain while others express the thrill of wild mushroom foraging.[1] Our White Mushroom Extract is a fascinating addition for niche perfumers or anyone seeking an unusual yet familiar complexity.