Aroma Chemicals
Has a faint, powdery-rosy geranium-like odor with metallic undertones that evolves to reveal woody, lacquered facets and a prominent rose character on drydown.
Odor Strength
Low
Odor Type
Floral
How perfumers typically use Benzophenone in their compositions.
2 formulas
1 formulas
Fragrance styles and categories where Benzophenone appears most often.
2 formulas
1 formulas
Luebke, William tgsc, (1981): Balsam rose metallic powdery geranium
Moellhausen: Fruity, citric note, sweet, geranium
PerfumersWorld: Sweet aromatic slightly-rose fruity-vinyl very faint powdery-rosy geranium-like odor with a slightly metallic note
Pell Wall Perfumes: Floral-rose, powdery, geranium, metalic
Arctander describes it like this: “used extensively in perfumes for sweet-woody-geranium-like notes in low-cost fragrances, soap perfumes, etc. useful as a fixative. it has an extremely low vapor pressure at room temperature, and its effect upon the fragrance is only perceptible and apparent in mixtures with lower boiling items or at higher temperatures.”
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