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INCI ingredient

Parfum

Also listed as: Parfum (Fragrance), Fragrance, Fragrance (Parfum), Parfum/Fragrance

The perfume blend. One word on the label can stand for dozens of scent molecules.

What it triggers

  • Vegan originYesno animal source
  • FragranceYescounts as fragrance
  • ParabenNonot a preservative of this family
  • SulfateNonot a sulfate surfactant
  • SiliconeNonot a silicone
  • AlcoholNonot a drying alcohol

If a product lists Parfum, its fragrance-free answer is No. Nothing else changes.

What it does

Parfum (Fragrance in the US) is the catch-all name for a product's scent. Brands do not have to list what is inside the blend, except for the named allergens that EU rules require them to declare separately, such as Limonene or Linalool.

If Parfum is on the list, the fragrance-free answer is no. Unscented products can still contain a small amount of Parfum to mask the smell of other ingredients.

Functions: fragrance

Products with Parfum

in 8,769 products

Showing 24 of 8,769 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • fragrance
  • perfuming
  • fragrance: Imparting an odour or taste. Creating a perceivable pleasant smell and/or masking a bad smell.
  • perfuming: Used for perfume and aromatic raw materials.
EU regulation

Not on a restricted-substances annex. Listed as an allowed cosmetic ingredient.

CosIng records a perfuming function for this ingredient.

Source: CosIng, European Commission. Informative, no legal value; the regulation text is the reference.

Fragrance-free instead

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