Ethylene brassylate

Say itETH-uh-leen BRAS-ih-layt

Sweet, clean white musk with soft vanilla-powdery and ambrette-like fruity hints.

What it is: A molecule made in a lab, first made by DuPont in 1934.
When you smell it: Dry-down: what stays.
What perfumers do with it: Affordable liquid white musk for fine and functional fragrance; adds soft, sweet musky volume.
Worth knowing: It came out of DuPont's 1930s polymer research, the same program that produced nylon.
Also called: Musk T; ethylene tridecanedioate

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