Not drawn yet: a drawing of what it smells like.
Ingredients · Animal notes · top note
p-Cresyl methyl ether
Say itPAIR-uh-KREE-sil METH-il ether
Sharp phenolic punch opening into ylang-ylang, powdery-nutty and faintly camphorous.
- What it is
- A molecule made in a lab.
- Where it comes from
- occurs naturally in ylang-ylang
- When you smell it
- Top notes: the first minutes.
- What perfumers do with it
- Lifts narcissus, jasmine and ylang accords in traces; a cleaner bridge to cresylic animal notes.
- Also called
- 4-Methylanisole; para-cresyl methyl ether
Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.
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