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Ingredients · Sweet · heart note
Butyric acid
Say itbyoo-TEER-ik acid
Rancid butter and cheese, sour and sweaty; creamy only at traces.
- What it is
- A molecule made in a lab.
- Where it comes from
- in butter, parmesan and fermenting foods
- When you smell it
- Heart: the first hours.
- What perfumers do with it
- Traces add milky-cheesy realism and animalic skin warmth; overdoses smell of vomit.
- Worth knowing
- Its name comes from the Latin butyrum, butter; it is also a main smell of vomit.
- Also called
- Butanoic acid
Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.