Not drawn yet: a drawing of what it smells like.
Ingredients · Florals · dry-down
Hexyl salicylate
Say itHEK-sil suh-LIS-uh-layt
Soft green-floral, herbaceous and clover-like with a faint witch-hazel sweetness.
- What it is
- A molecule made in a lab.
- When you smell it
- Dry-down: hours later.
- What perfumers do with it
- Smooths white florals and extends dry-down; a quiet bridge between citrus tops and heavier bases.
- Rules
- Limited. IFRA limits since 49th Amendment (2020) for skin sensitization
- Also called
- Hexyl 2-hydroxybenzoate
Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.