Not drawn yet: a drawing of what it smells like.
Ingredients · Florals · heart note
p-Cresyl acetate
Say itPAIR-uh-KREE-sil AS-ih-tayt
Animalic, horse-like neat; narcissus-lily floral when diluted.
- What it is
- A molecule made in a lab.
- When you smell it
- Heart: the first hours.
- What perfumers do with it
- Traces add the animal edge that makes narcissus, jonquil, hyacinth and ylang accords convincing.
- Also called
- para-Cresyl acetate; 4-methylphenyl acetate
Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.