Ingredients · Sea & water · top note

cis-6-Nonenol

Say itsis-siks-NOH-nuh-nawl

Ripe honeydew, melon rind, cool cucumber.

What it is

A molecule made in a lab.

When you smell it

Top notes: the first minutes.

What perfumers do with it

Natural-smelling melon flesh in fruity and aquatic accords; softer than the aldehydes

Worth knowing

Ripe melons make this same molecule themselves.

Also called

cis-6-nonen-1-ol; melon alcohol