Ingredients · Citrus · top note

Citronellyl nitrile

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Strong, metallic lemon-citronella with a fatty, slightly rosy edge.

What it is

A molecule made in a lab.

When you smell it

Top notes: when you spray it.

What perfumers do with it

Stable lemon freshness for soaps, detergents and bleach, where citral would break down.

Also called

Citronalva (IFF), agrunitrile; 3,7-dimethyl-6-octenenitrile