Not drawn yet: a drawing of what it smells like.
Ingredients · Sweet · dry-down
Dihydrocoumarin
Say itdye-hye-droh-KOO-muh-rin
Sweet hay and caramel with a creamy, coconut-tonka softness.
- What it is
- A molecule made in a lab.
- Where it comes from
- natural in sweet clover (Melilotus)
- When you smell it
- Dry-down: hours later.
- What perfumers do with it
- A softer, creamier alternative to coumarin in tonka, hay and gourmand accords.
- Rules
- Limited. IFRA restricted (2023); earlier fully prohibited, later relaxed.
- Also called
- 3,4-Dihydrocoumarin; melilotin
Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.