Ingredients · Sweet · dry-down
Ethyl maltol
Say itETH-il MAWL-tawl
Cotton candy and caramelised sugar with jammy strawberry sweetness.
- What it is
- A molecule made in a lab, first made by Pfizer in 1969.
- Where it comes from
- synthetic cousin of maltol, not found in nature
- When you smell it
- Dry-down: hours later.
- What perfumers do with it
- The candyfloss note of modern gourmands; sweetens fruit and praline accords.
- Worth knowing
- Mugler's Angel (1992) was its first famous use in fine perfume and opened the gourmand family.
- Known in
- Angel (Thierry Mugler, 1992)
- Also called
- 2-Ethyl-3-hydroxy-4H-pyran-4-one
Named by the house, not on the label, in 2
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