Not drawn yet: a drawing of what it smells like.

Helional

Ingredients · Sea & water · heart note

Helional

Say itHEE-lee-uh-nal

Wet cyclamen, green hay, crisp melon, fresh ozone.

What it is
A molecule made in a lab.
When you smell it
Heart: the first hours.
What perfumers do with it
Adds transparent, watery air to florals and marine accords; blends especially well with muguet and cyclamen
Worth knowing
Tropional and Aquanal are other sellers' names for this same molecule.
Known in
Diorella (Dior, 1972)
Rules
Limited. IFRA 51 caps it near 2.6% in fine fragrance
Also called
Tropional (Vigon); Aquanal; ocean propanal; heliopropanal

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