Not drawn yet: a drawing of what it smells like.
Ingredients · Florals · heart note
Amyl salicylate
Say itAM-il suh-LIS-uh-layt
Herbaceous clover-and-orchid floral with a sweet, slightly green hay tone.
- What it is
- A molecule made in a lab.
- When you smell it
- Heart: the first hours.
- What perfumers do with it
- Classic orchid and clover note in fougères, carnations and white florals; historically used in big doses.
- Worth knowing
- Early perfumers decided that if orchids had a scent (most barely do), this would be it.
- Known in
- Trèfle Incarnat (L.T. Piver, 1898)
- Also called
- Pentyl 2-hydroxybenzoate; Trefol
On the label of 5 of the 232 perfumes read so far
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