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Ingredients · Florals · heart note
Phenylethyl acetate
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Sweet, honeyed rose with fruity pear and raspberry-like nuance.
- What it is
- A molecule made in a lab.
- When you smell it
- Heart: the first hours.
- What perfumers do with it
- Adds honeyed, fruity sweetness to rose, peony and blossom accords.
- Worth knowing
- It is one of the esters behind the rosy, honeyed floral note in wine and beer.
- Also called
- 2-Phenylethyl acetate; PEA acetate
Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.
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