Ethyl benzoate

Say itETH-il BEN-zoh-ayt

Sweet, fruity wintergreen with cherry, grape and medicinal-balsamic tones.

What it is: A molecule made in a lab.
Where it comes from: occurs in ylang-ylang oil, fruit, wine and black tea
When you smell it: Top notes: when you spray it.
What perfumers do with it: Fruity-medicinal accent in ylang, cherry, grape and tobacco accords; a milder, sweeter cousin of methyl benzoate.
Worth knowing: Ylang-ylang oil holds about 1.5% of it, and it also turns up in cherries, wine, black tea and vanilla beans.
Also called: ethyl benzoate; benzoic acid ethyl ester; ethyl benzenecarboxylate

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