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Trimethylpyrazine

Ingredients · Sweet · heart note

Trimethylpyrazine

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Roasted cocoa bean, peanut and baked-potato earthiness.

What it is
A molecule made in a lab.
When you smell it
Heart: the first hours.
What perfumers do with it
Gives roasted, earthy depth to chocolate, coffee and nutty accords at traces.
Also called
2,3,5-Trimethylpyrazine

Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.