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Ingredients · Florals · dry-down
Aurantiol
Say itaw-RAN-tee-awl
Heavy, sweet orange blossom with neroli, grape and balsamic depth.
- What it is
- A molecule made in a lab.
- When you smell it
- Dry-down: hours later.
- What perfumers do with it
- Tenacious orange-blossom fixative for white-floral, amber and classic floral bases.
- Worth knowing
- Like most Schiff bases it slowly darkens, turning formulas from yellow to orange-brown.
- Known in
- L'Heure Bleue (Guerlain, 1912)
- Rules
- Limited. Limited via its hydroxycitronellal content (IFRA)
- Also called
- Hydroxycitronellal-methyl anthranilate Schiff base; Auralva
Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.