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Aurantiol

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.