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Ingredients · Florals · top note
Methyl benzoate
Say itMETH-il BEN-zoh-ayt
Heady, medicinal-fruity with almond and ylang-tuberose floral sharpness.
- What it is
- A molecule made in a lab.
- Where it comes from
- natural in tuberose and ylang
- When you smell it
- Top notes: the first minutes.
- What perfumers do with it
- Gives tuberose and ylang accords their heady, slightly medicinal opening.
- Worth knowing
- Moist air turns cocaine into methyl benzoate, so drug-sniffing dogs are trained on its smell.
- Also called
- Oil of Niobe; benzoic acid methyl ester
On the label of 6 of the 232 perfumes read so far
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