Not drawn yet: a drawing of what it smells like.
Ingredients · Aldehydes · heart note
Adoxal
Say ituh-DOK-sal
Marine-ozonic aldehyde with waxy muguet, clean linen and ambergris-like warmth.
- What it is
- A molecule made in a lab.
- When you smell it
- Heart: the first hours.
- What perfumers do with it
- Floralizes rose or jasmine in traces; gives fresh-linen and 'blue' marine freshness at higher doses.
- Worth knowing
- Pushed to 1–5% of a formula, it gives metallic effects that suppliers liken to ink or cold metal.
- Also called
- 2,6,10-trimethylundec-9-enal
Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.
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