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Fructone

Ingredients · Fruits · top note

Fructone

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Fresh red apple and strawberry with woody, faintly pineapple nuances.

What it is
A molecule made in a lab.
When you smell it
Top notes: the first minutes.
What perfumers do with it
A cheap, stable, clean apple note for fruity florals, shampoos and fruity tops.
Worth knowing
The same molecule sells under at least four trade names: Fructone, Jasmaprunat, Methyl Dioxolan and Applifine.
Also called
Ethyl acetoacetate ethylene glycol ketal; apple ketal; Jasmaprunat (Symrise)

Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.