No drawing: it is there to carry or keep the perfume.
Ingredients · Not for the smell
Disodium EDTA
Say itdye-SOH-dee-um ee-dee-tee-AY
Odorless.
- What it is
- There to carry, keep or colour the perfume, not for its smell.
- What perfumers do with it
- Locks up trace metal ions from water that trigger discoloration and oxidation
- Worth knowing
- A calcium form of EDTA is used in hospitals to pull lead out of the blood.
- Known in
- Twilly d'Hermès (Hermès, 2017)
- Also called
- disodium ethylenediaminetetraacetate; tetrasodium EDTA (cousin)
Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.
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