Ingredients · Sea & water · dry-down

Scentenal

Say itSEN-tuh-nal

Sea breeze, cucumber skin, green-floral aldehyde, faint moss.

What it is

A molecule made in a lab, first made by Firmenich in 1989.

When you smell it

Dry-down: hours later.

What perfumers do with it

Boosts and extends other marine-ozone notes; lighter and greener than Floralozone

Worth knowing

Built to fix the short life of older green aldehydes: it lasts about two weeks on a smelling strip.

Rules

Limited. IFRA 51 caps it near 1.1% in fine fragrance

Also called

octahydro-5-methoxy-4,7-methano-1H-indene-2-carboxaldehyde