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Ingredients · Fruits · heart note
Methyl cinnamate
Say itMETH-il SIN-uh-mayt
Sweet strawberry-balsamic with a cinnamon-fruity warmth.
- What it is
- A molecule made in a lab.
- Where it comes from
- natural in strawberries, some basils and matsutake mushrooms
- When you smell it
- Heart: the first hours.
- What perfumers do with it
- Adds jammy strawberry warmth and a balsamic bridge between fruit and spice.
- Worth knowing
- It is part of the prized aroma of matsutake mushrooms in Japan.
- Also called
- Methyl 3-phenylpropenoate
Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.