Ingredients · Musks · dry-down

Dihydroambrettolide

Say itdye-hye-droh-am-BRET-uh-lyde

Sweet, crystalline musk with balsamic richness and animal undertones.

What it is

A molecule made in a lab.

When you smell it

Dry-down: what stays.

What perfumers do with it

Musk fixative for florals and amber accords; pairs with other macrocyclic musks and ionones.

Also called

Hexadecanolide; Onestolide (Synarome); hexadecanolactone

On the label of 76 of the 1080 perfumes read so far

SauvageDior · printed “Hexadecanolactone”Bleu de ChanelChanel · printed “Hexadecanolactone”Coco MademoiselleChanel · printed “Hexadecanolactone”Santal 33Le Labo · printed “Hexadecanolactone”Lift Me UpInitio · printed “Hexadecanolactone”High FrequencyInitio · printed “Hexadecanolactone”

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