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Ethyl butyrate

Ingredients · Fruits · top note

Ethyl butyrate

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Juicy pineapple and tutti-frutti chewing gum, sweet with a buttery edge.

What it is
A molecule made in a lab.
Where it comes from
occurs naturally in pineapple and oranges
When you smell it
Top notes: the first minutes.
What perfumers do with it
Gives an instant burst of ripe juiciness to fruit accords; fades within minutes.
Worth knowing
Food makers add it to commercial orange juice, because people associate its smell with freshly squeezed oranges.
Also called
Ethyl butanoate

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