Not drawn yet: a drawing of what it smells like.
Ingredients · Green · top note
Methyl heptine carbonate
Say itMETH-il HEP-teen KAR-buh-nayt
Powerful green violet leaf, cucumber-melon and slightly fatty.
- What it is
- A molecule made in a lab.
- When you smell it
- Top notes: the first minutes.
- What perfumers do with it
- Traces give the green, leafy edge of violet-leaf and green-floral accords.
- Worth knowing
- The 'carbonate' name is a historical misnomer: chemically it is an ester, methyl 2-octynoate.
- Rules
- Limited. Strong skin sensitizer; IFRA caps it at very low doses
- Also called
- MHC; methyl 2-octynoate; Folione
On the label of 11 of the 232 perfumes read so far
Lyric WomanAmouage · printed “Methyl 2-octynoate”
The Most WantedAzzaro · printed “Methyl 2-octynoate”
Stronger With You IntenselyArmani · printed “Methyl-2-octynoate”Ombré LeatherTom Ford · printed “Methyl 2-octynoate”Uomo Born in Roma IntenseValentino · printed “Methyl 2-octynoate”DaisyMarc Jacobs · printed “Methyl 2-octynoate”
The Most WantedAzzaro · printed “Methyl 2-octynoate”Stronger With You IntenselyArmani · printed “Methyl-2-octynoate”Ombré LeatherTom Ford · printed “Methyl 2-octynoate”Uomo Born in Roma IntenseValentino · printed “Methyl 2-octynoate”DaisyMarc Jacobs · printed “Methyl 2-octynoate”
