Ingredients · Green · top note

Allyl amyl glycolate

Say itAL-il AM-il GLYE-kuh-layt

Sharp galbanum green with juicy pineapple and a fruity-metallic sparkle.

What it is

A molecule made in a lab.

When you smell it

Top notes: the first minutes.

What perfumers do with it

Workhorse for fresh green-fruity tops in masculines, shampoos and fresh fougères.

Worth knowing

Chemists noticed it mimics Dynascone's shape, with an oxygen atom where Dynascone has a carbon.

Known in

Green Irish Tweed (Creed, 1985)

Rules

Limited. Allyl ester: free allyl alcohol must stay below 0.1%

Also called

AAG; allyl (3-methylbutoxy)acetate