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Ingredients · Sweet · heart note
2-Furfurylthiol
Say itTOO-FUR-fur-il-THYE-awl
Freshly roasted coffee when diluted; burnt, sulfurous and rubbery when strong.
- What it is
- A molecule made in a lab.
- Where it comes from
- nature-identical
- When you smell it
- Heart: the first hours.
- What perfumers do with it
- Parts-per-million doses give realistic roasted coffee to gourmand and smoky accords.
- Worth knowing
- It was identified in coffee aroma in the 1920s by Tadeus Reichstein, later a Nobel laureate in medicine.
- Also called
- Furfuryl mercaptan; coffee mercaptan
Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.