Ingredients · Florals · heart note

Dimethyl benzyl carbinyl acetate

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Fruity-floral: rosy and jasmine-like with crisp pear and green apple.

What it is

A molecule made in a lab.

When you smell it

Heart: as it settles.

What perfumers do with it

Brightens floral accords with a sparkling fruity edge; livelier than its parent carbinol.

Also called

DMBCA; 1,1-dimethyl-2-phenylethyl acetate; dimethyl phenethyl acetate; dimethylphenethyl acetate

On the label of 33 of the 1080 perfumes read so far

Good GirlCarolina Herrera · printed “Dimethyl phenethyl acetate”Coco MademoiselleChanel · printed “Dimethyl phenethyl acetate”Can't Get EnoughInitio · printed “Dimethyl phenethyl acetate”Power SelfInitio · printed “Dimethyl phenethyl acetate”Overture 41Amouage · printed “Dimethyl phenethyl acetate”Erba PuraXerjoff · printed “Dimethyl phenethyl acetate”

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