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Ingredients · Citrus · top note
Grapefruit mercaptan
Say itGrapefruit mur-KAP-tun
Explosive juicy grapefruit; sulfurous and tropical, catty at full strength.
- What it is
- A molecule made in a lab, first made by Firmenich in 1982.
- Where it comes from
- synthesized, occurs in traces in grapefruit juice
- When you smell it
- Top notes: the first minutes.
- What perfumers do with it
- Used at parts per million to make grapefruit, passion fruit and citrus accords burst with juiciness.
- Worth knowing
- Its detection threshold, around 0.00002 parts per billion, is among the lowest ever recorded for any odorant.
- Also called
- 1-p-Menthene-8-thiol; thioterpineol
Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.