Description and usage notes:
Fruity, sweet-rose, natural cassis & tobacco; Similar to alpha-Damascone but more fuity and less rosy. This is a very cost-effective rose ketone, that is unusual in that it has not been found in nature. Just as high-impact as the others, this is exceptionally useful for fruity fragances and can also be used to impart a metalic quality that isn’t evident in the others.
Note that the IFRA restriction applies to all rose ketones combined.
Arcadi Boix Camps, writing in 2009, describes this material as “quite similar to alpha-damascone, but with a more striking metallic fruity nuance and less “cinnamic” impact. I say cinnamic because many shades of cinnamic alcohol are found in the diverse damascones … I like this chemical, although it is less linear and less clean than the other isomers. However it is quite useful because of its striking fruity impact” .
Luca Rüffert (verified owner) –
Quite intense, fresh fragrance that keeps to be present in the late heart note. It has a slightly mentholic smell which makes it very interesting for head notes.
I would recommend a dillution from at least 10%.
knatesuda (verified owner) –
Ripe black currant berries, a little plum fruit, flakes wet expensive tobacco. To my taste it is like that.