Ingredients · Not for the smell

tert-Butyl alcohol

Say itTURT-BYOO-til alcohol

Faint camphor-like.

What it is

There to carry, keep or colour the perfume, not for its smell.

What perfumers do with it

Co-denaturant in perfume alcohol (SD 40-B and 40-C)

Worth knowing

It freezes near 25 °C, so a drum can turn solid on a cool day.

Also called

t-butanol; TBA