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p-Cresyl caprylate

Ingredients · Animal notes · dry-down

p-Cresyl caprylate

Say itPAIR-uh-KREE-sil KAP-ruh-layt

Gentle, delicately fecal animal note with hay, ylang, narcissus and jasmine traces.

What it is
A molecule made in a lab.
When you smell it
Dry-down: hours later.
What perfumers do with it
Softest cresyl ester; adds texture and naturalness to florals and oud recreations below 0.1%.
Also called
p-Tolyl octanoate

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