Ingredients · Florals · heart note

Amyl salicylate

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Herbaceous clover-and-orchid floral with a sweet, slightly green hay tone.

What it is

A molecule made in a lab.

When you smell it

Heart: as it settles.

What perfumers do with it

Classic orchid and clover note in fougères, carnations and white florals; historically used in big doses.

Worth knowing

Early perfumers decided that if orchids had a scent (most barely do), this would be it.

Known in

Trèfle Incarnat (L.T. Piver, 1898)

Also called

Pentyl 2-hydroxybenzoate; Trefol

On the label of 23 of the 1080 perfumes read so far

SauvageDior · printed “Amyl salicylate”High FrequencyInitio · printed “Amyl salicylate”Baie 19Le Labo · printed “Amyl salicylate”Neroli 36Le Labo · printed “Amyl salicylate”Aldehyde 44Le Labo · printed “Amyl salicylate”Kashmir MuskArabian Oud · printed “Amyl salicylate”

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