Ingredients · Sweet · Made in a lab
Almond
Bitter almond oil can carry cyanide; its marzipan smell is simply benzaldehyde, made cleanly.
- What it is
- An effect perfumers build from a few materials.
- How perfumers build it
- Known in
- Hypnotic Poison (Dior, 1998)
- Worth knowing
- Natural bitter almond oil must be sold 'FFPA', free from prussic acid, because the raw oil holds cyanide.
Named by the house in 2 of the 632 perfumes read so far