Not drawn yet: a drawing of what it smells like.

Ozonil

Ingredients · Sea & water · top note

Ozonil

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Mandarin peel, waxy aldehyde, faint sea breeze.

What it is
A molecule made in a lab.
When you smell it
Top notes: the first minutes.
What perfumers do with it
Adds citrus-marine sparkle; nitriles hold up in soaps and detergents where aldehydes fail
Also called
2-tridecenenitrile; waxy nitrile

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