Not drawn yet: a drawing of what it smells like.
Ingredients · Powder · dry-down
Acetanisole
Say itas-et-AN-ih-sohl
Sweet hawthorn-anise powder with vanilla, hay and almond facets.
- What it is
- A molecule made in a lab.
- Where it comes from
- a crystalline solid
- When you smell it
- Dry-down: hours later.
- What perfumers do with it
- Bridges vanilla and floral accords; boosts hawthorn and mimosa with long-lasting powdery sweetness.
- Worth knowing
- Perfumers reach for it when anisaldehyde hits its IFRA ceiling.
- Also called
- 4'-methoxyacetophenone
Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.
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