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Celestolide

Ingredients · Musks · dry-down

Celestolide

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Mild, sweet musk with a faint animal undertone.

What it is
A molecule made in a lab.
When you smell it
Dry-down: hours later.
What perfumers do with it
Diffusive, sweet polycyclic musk usable at high doses in fine and functional fragrance.
Also called
ADBI; 4-acetyl-6-tert-butyl-1,1-dimethylindane

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