Not drawn yet: a drawing of what it smells like.
Ingredients · Amber & resins · dry-down
Cinnamyl cinnamate
Say itSIN-uh-mil SIN-uh-mayt
Very faint, sweet balsamic and softly floral-resinous.
- What it is
- A molecule made in a lab.
- Where it comes from
- natural constituent of storax (styrax) balsam
- When you smell it
- Dry-down: hours later.
- What perfumers do with it
- Near-odorless balsamic fixative used to extend ambers and heavy orientals.
- Worth knowing
- Its old name, styracin, records where chemists first found it: storax balsam.
- Also called
- Styracin
Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.