Ingredients · Sweet · dry-down
Natural vanillin (ferulic acid)
Say itNatural vuh-NIL-in
Clean, sweet vanilla, identical to synthetic vanillin.
- What it is
- A molecule made by fermentation.
- When you smell it
- Dry-down: hours later.
- What perfumers do with it
- Lets brands use vanillin while labelling it natural; same smell, much higher price.
- Worth knowing
- Molecule for molecule it matches $15-per-kilo vanillin, yet sells near $700 per kilo because it counts as natural.
- Also called
- Bio-vanillin; vanillin ex-ferulic acid; Rhovanil Natural
Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.
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