Synthetic Ingredients Dihydrojasmonate (Hedione)
Ingredient GuideHedione is synthetic methyl dihydrojasmonate used as a fragrance ingredient. Sigma-Aldrich’s product inf...
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Natural Ingredients Caraway
Explore caraway as a plant, the scent of its essential oil, and its use in perfume. Learn about its role in spicy fragrances and examples of its use.
Natural Ingredients Davana
Davana is an Indian herb closely related to mugwort. Discover its sweet, fruity scent, reminiscent of tea and dried fruit.
Natural Ingredients Blackberry
How is the fruitiness of blackberry expressed in perfume? Explore its juicy sweet-tart character, its pairing with musk, and the background to representative fragrances.
Synthetic Ingredients Lactones
Ingredient GuideIn the perfume industry, a scent described as creamy or milky will usually involve a material called a l...
Natural Ingredients Cypress
Cypress is a tree also known in Japanese as itosugi or seiyō-hinoki. Explore its mellow, leathery scent and slightly smoky character.
Natural Ingredients Bitter Orange
The fruit of the bitter orange tree, or bigaradier, is called bigarade in French. In Japan, daidai is a type of bitter orange.
Natural Ingredients Poppy
Ingredient GuidePoppy, a plant in the Papaveraceae family that is also a source of narcotics such as morphine, has red f...
Synthetic Ingredients Petrichor
Ingredient GuideLike geosmin, it is described as the smell after rain. More precisely, petrichor is the scent that rises...
Natural Ingredients Cumin
Cumin is a spice with a warm, weighty aromatic scent. Explore the character of its seeds and how it is used to give perfumes a distinctive nuance.