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Dimethyl phenylethyl carbinol

Ingredients · Florals · heart note

Dimethyl phenylethyl carbinol

Say itdye-METH-il fen-il-ETH-il KAR-bih-nawl

Soft, sweet lily and hyacinth floral with rosy and faint violet notes.

What it is
A molecule made in a lab.
When you smell it
Heart: the first hours.
What perfumers do with it
Versatile muguet and lilac builder with linalool's freshness and terpineol's softness, minus their faults.
Worth knowing
Arctander rated it perhaps the most valuable and versatile of all the 'carbinols' used in perfumery.
Also called
Carbinol Muguet; 2-methyl-4-phenylbutan-2-ol; DMPEC

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