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  2. Musk - Wikipedia

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    Musk deer of Tibet in an 1835 illustration. Musk is a class of aromatic substances commonly used as base notes in perfumery.They include glandular secretions from animals such as the musk deer, numerous plants emitting similar fragrances, and artificial substances with similar odors.

  3. List of essential oils - Wikipedia

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    It is used as a flavouring agent, in perfume, and medicinally. [23] Palo Santo; Parsley oil, used in soaps, detergents, colognes, cosmetics and perfumes, especially men's fragrances. Patchouli oil, very common ingredient in perfumes. Perilla essential oil, extracted from the leaves of the perilla plant. Contains about 50–60% perillaldehyde.

  4. Cyclopentadecanolide - Wikipedia

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    Cyclopentadecanolide is used as a musklike perfume fixative in fine fragrances and as a flavoring agent. [4] It is a substitute for the extremely expensive animal ...

  5. Aroma compound - Wikipedia

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    Fragrance bottles. An aroma compound, also known as an odorant, aroma, fragrance or flavoring, is a chemical compound that has a smell or odor.For an individual chemical or class of chemical compounds to impart a smell or fragrance, it must be sufficiently volatile for transmission via the air to the olfactory system in the upper part of the nose.

  6. Category:Perfume ingredients - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Perfume ingredients" The following 129 pages are in this category, out of 129 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. 2-Octanone; A.

  7. Lilial - Wikipedia

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    Lilial (a trade name for lily aldehyde, also known as lysmeral or lilestralis) is a chemical compound commonly used as a perfume in cosmetic preparations and laundry powders, often under the name butylphenyl methylpropional. It is an aromatic aldehyde, naturally occurring in crow-dipper and tomato plants, [2] and produced synthetically in large ...

  8. α-Hexylcinnamaldehyde - Wikipedia

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    α-Hexylcinnamaldehyde (hexyl cinnamal) is a common additive in the perfume and cosmetic industry as aroma substance. It is found naturally in the essential oil of chamomile. It is a pale yellow to yellow liquid to solid, which is nearly insoluble in water but soluble in oils.

  9. Farnesol - Wikipedia

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    It is used in perfumery to emphasize the odors of sweet, floral perfumes. It enhances perfume scent by acting as a co-solvent that regulates the volatility of the odorants. It is especially used in lilac perfumes. Farnesol and its ester derivatives are important precursors for a variety of other compounds used as fragrances and vitamins. [1]