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Ingredients · Fruits · top note
Ethyl caproate
Say itETH-il KAP-roh-ayt
Sweet pineapple and green banana over a waxy, wine-like background.
- What it is
- A molecule made in a lab.
- Where it comes from
- found in pineapple, apple and wine
- When you smell it
- Top notes: the first minutes.
- What perfumers do with it
- Rounds and sweetens tropical and red-fruit tops; bridges fruit esters to boozy notes.
- Worth knowing
- Sake brewers select special yeasts to boost it; it gives premium ginjo sake its apple-pineapple fragrance.
- Also called
- Ethyl hexanoate
Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.