Not drawn yet: a drawing of what it smells like.
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
Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.
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