Ingredients · Fruits · Made in a lab
Peach
Peaches can't be extracted for perfume; the velvety skin-and-flesh smell comes from lactones.
- What it is
- A fruit whose smell can’t be extracted, so perfumers rebuild it from other materials.
- How perfumers build it
- Known in
- Mitsouko (Guerlain, 1919)
- Worth knowing
- Aldehyde C-14 isn't an aldehyde at all; it's a lactone, and the misleading name has stuck for a century.
Named by the house in 12 of the 352 perfumes read so far
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