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delta-Dodecalactone

Ingredients · Sweet · dry-down

delta-Dodecalactone

Say itDEL-tuh-doh-dek-uh-LAK-tohn

Fatty fresh butter and cream with a soft peach-coconut nuance.

What it is
A molecule made in a lab.
Where it comes from
found in butter, cheese and coconut
When you smell it
Dry-down: hours later.
What perfumers do with it
Gives rich buttery, milky body and tenacity to gourmand and lactonic accords.
Also called
δ-Dodecalactone

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