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