Ingredients · Florals · heart note

delta-Damascone

Say itDEL-tuh-DAM-uh-skohn

Bright plum, blackcurrant and rose with earthy tobacco and minty edge.

What it is

A molecule made in a lab.

When you smell it

Heart: the first hours.

What perfumers do with it

Diffusive fruity-rose booster; adds juicy plum-blackcurrant sparkle to florals and masculines.

Worth knowing

Its odor threshold rivals damascenone's, making it one of the most powerful rose ketones.

Known in

Dior Homme (Dior, 2005)

Rules

Limited. IFRA 'rose ketones' limit; EU caps at 0.02% and labels

Also called

Rose ketone-3; trans-delta-damascone