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Ingredients · Florals · top note
Methyl salicylate
Say itMETH-il suh-LIS-uh-layt
Sharp, sweet minty-medicinal wintergreen: root beer, muscle rub and chewing gum.
- What it is
- A molecule made in a lab.
- Where it comes from
- main component of wintergreen and sweet birch oils
- When you smell it
- Top notes: the first minutes.
- What perfumers do with it
- Traces add a fruity, sunny lift to tuberose, ylang and orange blossom; more turns medicinal.
- Worth knowing
- It has exactly the same atoms as vanillin, arranged differently: one smells of wintergreen, the other of vanilla.
- Rules
- Limited. Reproductive toxicant category 2; SCCS (2021) set safe maximum levels
- Also called
- Methyl 2-hydroxybenzoate; main constituent of wintergreen oil
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