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Ingredients · Sea & water · heart note
Cyclemax
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Dewy lily of the valley, cyclamen, crisp watermelon rind.
- What it is
- A molecule made in a lab.
- When you smell it
- Heart: the first hours.
- What perfumers do with it
- Watery floral lift for muguet and cyclamen accords; brightens citrus
- Worth knowing
- Suppliers now pitch it as a helper for muguet accords after the EU ban on Lilial.
- Also called
- cuminyl acetaldehyde; 3-(4-isopropylphenyl)propanal
Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.