Ingredients · Sweet · heart note

Filbertone

Say itFIL-ber-tohn

Roasted hazelnut, buttery and chocolatey with a metallic edge.

What it is

A molecule made in a lab, first made by Haarmann & Reimer (now Symrise) in 1989.

Where it comes from

the character molecule of roasted hazelnut

When you smell it

Heart: the first hours.

What perfumers do with it

The hazelnut note of praline, chocolate-spread and nutty gourmand accords.

Worth knowing

Food chemists test for it to catch olive oil secretly cut with cheaper hazelnut oil.

Also called

(E)-5-Methylhept-2-en-4-one; hazelnut ketone