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

para-Methyl acetophenone

Ingredients · Powder · heart note

para-Methyl acetophenone

Say itPAIR-uh-METH-il as-ih-toh-fuh-NOHN

Sweet, powdery hawthorn and mimosa with almond and hay-coumarin warmth.

What it is
A molecule made in a lab.
When you smell it
Heart: the first hours.
What perfumers do with it
Recreates hawthorn blossom; adds honeyed powder to mimosa and heliotrope accords.
Worth knowing
Hawthorn blossom yields no usable oil, so its perfume note is built from molecules like this one.
Also called
4'-methylacetophenone

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