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

Phenethyl phenylacetate

Ingredients · Sweet · dry-down

Phenethyl phenylacetate

Say itfen-ETH-il fen-il-AS-ih-tayt

Soft sweet honey and rose with a waxy, balsamic depth.

What it is
A molecule made in a lab.
When you smell it
Dry-down: hours later.
What perfumers do with it
Tenacious honey-rose fixative for honey, rose and oriental accords.
Also called
2-Phenylethyl phenylacetate

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