Ingredients · Musks · dry-down

Ethylene brassylate

Say itETH-uh-leen BRAS-ih-layt

Sweet, clean white musk with soft vanilla-powdery and ambrette-like fruity hints.

What it is

A molecule made in a lab, first made by DuPont in 1934.

When you smell it

Dry-down: hours later.

What perfumers do with it

Affordable liquid white musk for fine and functional fragrance; adds soft, sweet musky volume.

Worth knowing

It came out of DuPont's 1930s polymer research, the same program that produced nylon.

Also called

Musk T; ethylene tridecanedioate