Exaltone
Ingredients · Musks · dry-down
Exaltone
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Warm, refined animalic musk with sweet, slightly powdery softness.
- What it is
- A molecule made in a lab.
- When you smell it
- Dry-down: what stays.
- What perfumers do with it
- Rounds and anchors compositions; improves a perfume's wearability at low levels.
- Worth knowing
- Leopold Ruzicka's work on such large-ring molecules earned him a share of the 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- Also called
- Cyclopentadecanone; normuscone
Not on the label of any of the 1080 perfumes read so far.
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