Ingredients · Woods · dry-down

Vetiveryl acetate

Say itVET-ih-ver-il AS-ih-tayt

Smooth, dry, refined vetiver-wood with bright grapefruit freshness, less earthy.

What it is

A molecule made from a natural raw material.

When you smell it

Dry-down: what stays.

What perfumers do with it

Polished vetiver effect with great tenacity for woody, ambery and chypre compositions.

Worth knowing

Acetylation strips vetiver's bitter, leathery roughness and brings its grapefruit side forward.

Known in

Molecule 03 (Escentric Molecules, 2010)

Rules

Limited. IFRA 49th Amendment limits for sensitisation and systemic toxicity.

Also called

Vetiver acetate; acetivenol; vetiverol acetate