No drawing: it is there to carry or keep the perfume.

Avobenzone

Ingredients · Not for the smell

Avobenzone

Say itav-oh-BEN-zohn

Odorless.

What it is
There to carry, keep or colour the perfume, not for its smell.
What perfumers do with it
Absorbs UVA light so tinted perfume in clear glass keeps its color
Worth knowing
Named on 45 of 101 alcohol-based perfume labels sampled from Open Beauty Facts in 2026, more than any other UV filter.
Known in
Invictus (Paco Rabanne, 2013); La Vie est Belle (Lancôme, 2012)
Rules
Limited. EU UV-filter cap 5%
Also called
butyl methoxydibenzoylmethane

On the label of 68 of the 232 perfumes read so far