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Amberketal

Ingredients · Amber & resins · dry-down

Amberketal

Say itam-bur-KEE-tal

Extremely powerful dry amber-woody with elegant animalic, musky undertones.

What it is
A molecule made in a lab.
When you smell it
Dry-down: hours later.
What perfumers do with it
High-impact amber-woody booster; adds diffusion and a dry, radiant ambergris halo in traces.
Also called
Z11 (dsm-firmenich); Ambermor Ketal (IFF); Amberketal (Givaudan)

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