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Oxane

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Oxane

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Tropical passion fruit and grapefruit, green and sulfurous-catty.

What it is
A molecule made in a lab.
Where it comes from
nature-identical, found in yellow passion fruit
When you smell it
Top notes: the first minutes.
What perfumers do with it
At traces, gives exotic juiciness to passion fruit, mango, grapefruit and cassis accords.
Worth knowing
Yellow passion fruit contains it naturally, and noses detect it at around three parts per billion.
Also called
2-Methyl-4-propyl-1,3-oxathiane; Tropathiane (Givaudan)

Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.