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Anisyl acetate

Ingredients · Powder · heart note

Anisyl acetate

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Powdery-sweet, vanilla-like floral with plum and cherry fruitiness.

What it is
A molecule made in a lab.
When you smell it
Heart: the first hours.
What perfumers do with it
Sweet powdery modifier in mimosa, oriental and chypre accords, without cloying heaviness.
Also called
4-methoxybenzyl acetate

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