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Jasmine lactone

Ingredients · Florals · dry-down

Jasmine lactone

Say itJasmine LAK-tohn

Creamy peach-apricot skin with waxy petal and coconut-milk softness.

What it is
A molecule made in a lab.
Where it comes from
natural in jasmine, tuberose and gardenia
When you smell it
Dry-down: hours later.
What perfumers do with it
Adds waxy, fleshy petal weight to jasmine, tuberose and gardenia reconstructions.
Also called
(Z)-7-Decen-5-olide; delta-jasmolactone; creamy lactone; Jasminlactone (Firmenich)

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