Cinnamaldéhyde
Cinnamaldehyde

Ingredients · Spices · heart note

Cinnamaldehyde

Say itsin-uh-MAL-dih-hyde

Intense hot cinnamon candy, sweet and pungent.

What it is
A molecule made in a lab.
Where it comes from
main component of cinnamon bark and cassia oils
When you smell it
Heart: as it settles.
What perfumers do with it
The cinnamon backbone; used with restraint in spicy orientals and gourmands.
Worth knowing
Isolated from cinnamon oil in 1834 and first synthesised twenty years later, in 1854.
Rules
Limited. IFRA use limits (skin sensitiser); EU label-declared allergen.
Also called
Cinnamal; cinnamic aldehyde

On the label of 202 of the 1080 perfumes read so far

ShalimarGuerlain · printed “Cinnamal”Portrait of a LadyFrédéric Malle · printed “Cinnamal”Tobacco VanilleTom Ford · printed “Cinnamal”JickyGuerlain · printed “Cinnamal”Fougère RoyaleHoubigant · printed “Cinnamal”Side EffectInitio · printed “Cinnamal”

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