Ingredients · Florals · top note

Ethyl linalool

Say itETH-il lih-NAL-oh-uhl

Fresh, rounder, fruitier linalool: bergamot-floral with a soft lavender tone.

What it is

A molecule made in a lab.

When you smell it

Top notes: when you spray it.

What perfumers do with it

Stands in for linalool in fresh florals, bergamot and lavender notes, lasting longer into the heart.

Worth knowing

Unlike linalool, it is not an EU-declarable allergen, so it need not appear on perfume labels.

Also called

3,7-dimethylnona-1,6-dien-3-ol; homolinalool