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Ingredients · Aldehydes · top note
Aldehyde C-7
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Fatty, green-fruity with wine-lees and melon notes; floral when diluted.
- What it is
- A molecule made in a lab.
- When you smell it
- Top notes: the first minutes.
- What perfumers do with it
- Traces add green, melon, marine or hyacinth freshness; overdosed it turns plastic.
- Worth knowing
- Many people are partly blind to its smell, a common specific anosmia.
- Also called
- Heptanal; oenanthal
Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.
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