Ingredients · Florals · dry-down

Rose crystals (Rosacetol)

Soft, powdery, sweet deep-red rose, faint but long-lasting.

What it is

A molecule made in a lab.

When you smell it

Dry-down: hours later.

What perfumers do with it

Fixative for rose accords; lends powdery, three-dimensional depth to phenylethyl alcohol.

Worth knowing

It is one of the very few perfume materials that contains chlorine.

Also called

Trichloromethyl phenyl carbinyl acetate; rose acetate; rosone