No drawing: it is there to carry or keep the perfume.
Ingredients · Not for the smell
Tris(tetramethylhydroxypiperidinol) citrate
Say itTRIS SIT-rayt
Odorless.
- What it is
- There to carry, keep or colour the perfume, not for its smell.
- What perfumers do with it
- Neutralizes light-made radicals so dyes and scent molecules last longer on the shelf
- Worth knowing
- Works differently from a UV filter: instead of blocking light, it cleans up the damage light starts.
- Known in
- La Vie est Belle (Lancôme, 2012); Twilly d'Hermès (Hermès, 2017)
- Also called
- light stabilizer (HALS); hindered-amine light stabilizer
On the label of 18 of the 232 perfumes read so far
Good GirlCarolina Herrera · printed “Tris(tetramethylhydroxypiperidinol) citrate”La Vie Est BelleLancôme · printed “Tris(tetramethylhydroxypiperidinol) citrate”Miss DiorDior · printed “Tris(tetramethylhydroxypiperidinol) citrate”
ParadoxePrada · printed “Tris(tetramethylhydroxypiperidinol) citrate”Donna Born in RomaValentino · printed “Tris(tetramethylhydroxypiperidinol) citrate”Uomo Born in Roma IntenseValentino · printed “Tris(tetramethylhydroxypiperidinol) citrate”
ParadoxePrada · printed “Tris(tetramethylhydroxypiperidinol) citrate”Donna Born in RomaValentino · printed “Tris(tetramethylhydroxypiperidinol) citrate”Uomo Born in Roma IntenseValentino · printed “Tris(tetramethylhydroxypiperidinol) citrate”GoddessBurberry · printed “Tris(tetramethylhydroxypiperidinol) citrate”HerBurberry · printed “Tris(tetramethylhydroxypiperidinol) citrate”Good Girl BlushCarolina Herrera · printed “Tris(tetramethylhydroxypiperidinol) citrate”La BombaCarolina Herrera · printed “Tris(tetramethylhydroxypiperidinol) citrate”My WayArmani · printed “Tris(tetramethylhydroxypiperidinol) citrate”IdôleLancôme · printed “Tris (tetramethylhydroxypiperidinol) citrate”
Paradoxe IntensePrada · printed “Tris(tetramethylhydroxypiperidinol) citrate”CodeArmani · printed “Tris(tetramethylhydroxypiperidinol) citrate”Daisy WildMarc Jacobs · printed “Tris(tetramethylhydroxypiperidinol) citrate”
Le Beau Paradise GardenJean Paul Gaultier · printed “Tris(tetramethylhydroxypiperidinol) citrate”Million Gold for HerRabanne · printed “Tris(tetramethylhydroxypiperidinol) citrate”
FameRabanne · printed “Tris(tetramethylhydroxypiperidinol) citrate”
Paradoxe IntensePrada · printed “Tris(tetramethylhydroxypiperidinol) citrate”CodeArmani · printed “Tris(tetramethylhydroxypiperidinol) citrate”Daisy WildMarc Jacobs · printed “Tris(tetramethylhydroxypiperidinol) citrate”Le Beau Paradise GardenJean Paul Gaultier · printed “Tris(tetramethylhydroxypiperidinol) citrate”Million Gold for HerRabanne · printed “Tris(tetramethylhydroxypiperidinol) citrate”FameRabanne · printed “Tris(tetramethylhydroxypiperidinol) citrate”