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Alcohol C-9

Ingredients · Aldehydes · heart note

Alcohol C-9

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Waxy rose and orange blossom with an oily, fresh-petal fattiness.

What it is
A molecule made in a lab.
When you smell it
Heart: the first hours.
What perfumers do with it
Gives rose and neroli accords the oily, crushed-petal realism that clean synthetics lack.
Also called
1-nonanol; nonyl alcohol

Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.