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Ingredients · Spices · dry-down
Eugenyl acetate
Say itYOO-juh-nil AS-ih-tayt
Sweet, soft clove with fruity-balsamic, carnation and faint tobacco tones.
- What it is
- A molecule made from a natural raw material.
- Where it comes from
- 8–15% of clove bud oil
- When you smell it
- Dry-down: what stays.
- What perfumers do with it
- Softens and sweetens clove and carnation accords, and adds spice to jasmine and other white florals.
- Worth knowing
- Clove bud oil carries 8–15% of it while leaf and stem oils carry little, one reason the bud oil smells sweeter and rounder.
- Also called
- eugenyl acetate; acetyl eugenol; acetyleugenol; eugenol acetate; 4-allyl-2-methoxyphenyl acetate
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