Not drawn yet: a drawing of what it smells like.
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.