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Phantolide

Ingredients · Musks · dry-down

Phantolide

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Sweet, soft powdery musk.

What it is
A molecule made in a lab.
When you smell it
Dry-down: hours later.
What perfumers do with it
Early polycyclic musk used for soft musky fixation; now rarely used.
Worth knowing
It reached the market before chemists had worked out its exact molecular structure.
Also called
AHMI; 5-acetyl-1,1,2,3,3,6-hexamethylindane

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