Ingredients · Florals · heart note

Dimethyl phenylethyl carbinol

Say itdye-METH-il fen-il-ETH-il KAR-bih-nawl

Soft, sweet lily and hyacinth floral with rosy and faint violet notes.

What it is

A molecule made in a lab.

When you smell it

Heart: as it settles.

What perfumers do with it

Versatile muguet and lilac builder with linalool's freshness and terpineol's softness, minus their faults.

Worth knowing

Arctander rated it perhaps the most valuable and versatile of all the 'carbinols' used in perfumery.

Also called

Carbinol Muguet; 2-methyl-4-phenylbutan-2-ol; DMPEC