Not drawn yet: a drawing of what it smells like.
Ingredients · Woods · dry-down
Guaiyl acetate
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Soft, smoky-sweet wood, rosy-tea and faintly leathery, smoother than guaiac oil.
- What it is
- A molecule made from a natural raw material.
- When you smell it
- Dry-down: hours later.
- What perfumers do with it
- Smooth smoky-woody modifier for rose, tea, tobacco and woody accords.
- Worth knowing
- Chemists crystallise guaiol from the oil and acetylate it, turning a smoky wood into a softer, tea-rose material.
- Also called
- Guaiacwood acetate; guaiol acetate
Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.
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