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Cocoa hexenal

Ingredients · Sweet · heart note

Cocoa hexenal

Say itCocoa HEK-suh-nal

Cocoa powder and roasted nuts with a sweet, honeyed, bready tone.

What it is
A molecule made in a lab.
Where it comes from
nature-identical
When you smell it
Heart: the first hours.
What perfumers do with it
Adds cocoa-powder dryness and roastiness to chocolate and praline accords.
Also called
5-Methyl-2-phenyl-2-hexenal

Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.