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Ingredients · Aldehydes · top note
Clonal
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Powerful metallic citrus-peel sparkle with a waxy, orange-aldehydic 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 aldehyde substitute that boosts sparkle in colognes, fougères and functional products; used highly diluted.
- Worth knowing
- Nitriles like this mimic aldehydes but resist oxidation, so they survive soaps and detergents.
- Also called
- Dodecanenitrile; lauronitrile
Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.
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