Ingredients · Spices · dry-down

3-Propylidene phthalide

Say itthree-proh-PIL-ih-deen THAL-yde

Warm celery-lovage with maple, fenugreek and brothy-herbal tones; very tenacious.

What it is

A molecule made in a lab.

Where it comes from

reported in celery and lovage root

When you smell it

Dry-down: what stays.

What perfumers do with it

Traces lend a natural lovage-celery, maple-sweet herbal warmth; also a savory flavor material.

Worth knowing

It belongs to the phthalides, the molecule family behind celery's smell; its cousin butylphthalide was approved in China in 2002 as a stroke medicine.

Rules

Limited. IFRA-restricted sensitizer; EU caps it at 0.01% outside oral care and label-named it in Regulation (EU) 2023/1545

Also called

3-propylidenephthalide; propylidene phthalide; 3-propylidene-2-benzofuran-1(3H)-one; Celeriax (IFF)

On the label of 3 of the 632 perfumes read so far

Addictive VibrationInitio · printed “3-propylidenephthalide”Vetiver 46Le Labo · printed “3-propylidenephthalide”Pasha de Cartier Noir AbsoluCartier · printed “3-propylidenephthalide”