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Ingredients · Musks · dry-down
Versalide
Say itVUR-suh-lyde
Sweet, powdery musk.
- What it is
- A molecule made in a lab.
- When you smell it
- Dry-down: hours later.
- What perfumers do with it
- Historic polycyclic musk used in soaps and cosmetics until withdrawn.
- Worth knowing
- A 1979 study in Science found it caused progressive nerve and brain damage in rats, ending its use.
- Rules
- Not allowed. IFRA-prohibited after it damaged nerves in animal tests.
- Also called
- AETT; acetyl ethyl tetramethyl tetralin
Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.
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