Ingredients · Spices · heart note

Eugenol

Say itYOO-juh-nawl

Warm clove, spicy and phenolic with a dry, woody edge.

What it is

Natural material from phenol isolated from clove leaf oil.

Where it comes from

also in cinnamon leaf and bay

When you smell it

Heart: the first hours.

What perfumers do with it

Core of carnation, clove and spicy accords; adds warmth to rose and oriental blends.

Worth knowing

Dentists mix it with zinc oxide to make a temporary filling paste.

Rules

Limited. IFRA use limits (2023); EU label-declared allergen.

Also called

4-Allyl-2-methoxyphenol

On the label of 136 of the 232 perfumes read so far

No. 5Chanel · printed “Eugenol”ShalimarGuerlain · printed “Eugenol”MitsoukoGuerlain · printed “Eugenol”Eau SauvageDior · printed “Eugenol”AngelMugler · printed “Eugenol”Acqua di GiòArmani · printed “Eugenol”

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