Ingredients · Aldehydes · heart note

Alcohol C-11 undecylenic

Say itAlcohol SEE-ih-LEV-un un-des-ih-LEN-ik

Clean, waxy rose petals with a citrus zing and a cool ozone touch.

What it is

A molecule made in a lab.

When you smell it

Heart: as it settles.

What perfumers do with it

Adds dewy, just-washed freshness to rose, jasmine, lilac and tuberose; milder than its aldehyde.

Also called

10-undecen-1-ol; undecylenic alcohol