Not drawn yet: a drawing of what it smells like.
Ingredients · Green · top note
cis-3-Hexenyl acetate
Say itSIS-THREE-HEK-suh-nil AS-ih-tayt
Sharp fruity green; unripe banana, pear skin and fresh-cut stems.
- What it is
- A molecule made in a lab.
- When you smell it
- Top notes: the first minutes.
- What perfumers do with it
- Adds juicy green fruitiness to fruity florals, green tops and apple-pear accords.
- Worth knowing
- Leaves release it within minutes of being damaged; it helps attract the predators of plant-eating insects.
- Also called
- Leaf acetate; (Z)-3-hexenyl acetate
Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.