Synthetics
Lyral smells like a soft, delicate floral blend reminiscent of lily and cyclamen with a delicately sweet, light floral touch, enhanced by hydroxycitronellal and boasting exceptional tenacity and radiant diffusion.
Luebke, William tgsc, (1986): Floral muguet cyclamen rhubarb woody
IFF: Soft delicate floral, lily, cyclamen, lilac note reminiscent of hydrocycitronellal
Extraordinary tenacity and diffusivity. a powerful blending agent giving richness throughout all dryout phases of a perfume composition.
Indukern F&F: Floral, aldehydic, sweet, lilac
PerfumersWorld: Soft delicate floral lily cyclamen note hydroxycitronellal delicately sweet-light-floral
Blends-well-with - resinoids styrax
Pell Wall Perfumes: Floral-muguet, aldehydic, powdery
Arctander writes very enthusiastically about this material: “lyral was at first believed to be of fixative value only, e. g. in high-class soap perfumes, etc. but it was soon discovered that lyral has a floral volume which, when properly cultivated’ by the creative perfumer, often outperforms hydrocitronellal and any other floral chemical or combination of chemicals, its application is therefore continuously expanding from the single floral muguet to become the must’ in cosmetic fragrances where tenacity and sweet-powdery, stable terminal notes are called for. it blends excellently with the ionones and with the conventional resinoids (styrax, tolu, peru, etc. ) and it may either accompany hydroxycitronellal or substitute it.