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Alcohol C-12

Ingredients · Aldehydes · dry-down

Alcohol C-12

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Soft, clean, soapy wax with faint honey and coconut notes.

What it is
A molecule made in a lab.
Where it comes from
a waxy solid
When you smell it
Dry-down: hours later.
What perfumers do with it
Anchors and fixes aldehydic florals; essential texture in mimosa, cassie and tuberose accords.
Worth knowing
A waxy solid at room temperature, it must be gently warmed before perfumers can weigh it out.
Also called
1-dodecanol; lauryl alcohol

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