Not drawn yet: a drawing of what it smells like.
Ingredients · Woods · dry-down
Vetiveryl acetate
Say itVET-ih-ver-il AS-ih-tayt
Smooth, dry, refined vetiver-wood with bright grapefruit freshness, less earthy.
- What it is
- A molecule made from a natural raw material.
- When you smell it
- Dry-down: hours later.
- What perfumers do with it
- Polished vetiver effect with great tenacity for woody, ambery and chypre compositions.
- Worth knowing
- Acetylation strips vetiver's bitter, leathery roughness and brings its grapefruit side forward.
- Known in
- Molecule 03 (Escentric Molecules, 2010)
- Rules
- Limited. IFRA 49th Amendment limits for sensitisation and systemic toxicity.
- Also called
- Vetiver acetate; acetivenol; vetiverol acetate
Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.
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