Synthetics
Benzophenone smells like a faint, fresh blend of fruits, florals, and a slightly metallic powdery-rosy geranium, reminiscent of lacquered wood that mellows to a prominent rose aroma.
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.”