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Ingredients · Sweet · top note
Diacetyl
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Rich melted butter and buttered popcorn, sharp when concentrated.
- What it is
- A molecule made in a lab.
- Where it comes from
- made by bacteria in butter and during fermentation
- When you smell it
- Top notes: the first minutes.
- What perfumers do with it
- Traces give buttery, creamy richness to milky, caramel and popcorn accords.
- Worth knowing
- Popcorn-factory workers who breathed it daily developed a severe lung disease nicknamed popcorn lung.
- Also called
- 2,3-Butanedione
Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.