Not drawn yet: a drawing of what it smells like.
Ingredients · Citrus · top note
Citronellyl nitrile
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Strong, metallic lemon-citronella with a fatty, slightly rosy edge.
- What it is
- A molecule made in a lab.
- When you smell it
- Top notes: the first minutes.
- What perfumers do with it
- Stable lemon freshness for soaps, detergents and bleach, where citral would break down.
- Also called
- Citronalva (IFF), agrunitrile; 3,7-dimethyl-6-octenenitrile
Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.
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