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Ingredients · Fruits · dry-down
Raspberry ketone
Say itRaspberry KEE-tohn
Sweet ripe raspberry jam with a soft, powdery-fruity warmth.
- What it is
- A molecule made in a lab.
- Where it comes from
- made from 4-hydroxybenzaldehyde and acetone
- When you smell it
- Dry-down: hours later.
- What perfumers do with it
- Gives raspberry body and long-lasting red-fruit sweetness to berry and gourmand accords.
- Worth knowing
- Raspberries yield only 1-4 mg per kilo, so the natural molecule can cost about $20,000 per kilo.
- Rules
- Limited. IFRA use limits since 2020 (49th Amendment).
- Also called
- Frambinone; 4-(4-hydroxyphenyl)butan-2-one; rheosmin
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