Ingredients · Florals · top note

Dimetol

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Fresh, clean floral with lime-zest brightness and airy freesia-lavender tones.

What it is

A molecule made in a lab.

When you smell it

Top notes: when you spray it.

What perfumers do with it

Adds green sparkle and diffusion to fresh florals, citrus, fougères and men's fragrances.

Worth knowing

It smells like linalool because the two molecules share a very similar tertiary-alcohol shape.

Known in

Polo (Ralph Lauren, 1978)

Also called

2,6-dimethylheptan-2-ol; freesia heptanol