Most of my synthetic aroma chemicals I get from Perfumer’s Apprentice in America.
Here’s the description of it I keep on the bottle of Lyral or Leerall: floral, muguet, cyclamen, rhubarb, woody. Perfumer’s Apprentice says: extraordinary tenacity and diffusivity. A powerful blending agent giving richness throughout all dryout phases of a perfume composition. Lyral is widely used to create a “lily-like” effect.
The odour can last up to 400 hours and the shelf life is 24 months. Usually used as a base note and fixative.
Here are my thoughts: immediately dipping the smelling strip this is the trip I get: clean, fresh, soapy. There are some floral aspects to it; I get an impression of open space, white.
After 1hr the note is much softer now, drier, with a definite synthetic feel to it, like I said soapy.
3 hours into the dry down and it’s now super dry, sharper somehow too, fading out.
1 day later it’s very light, soft, still present but after a few sniffs my nose can’t detect it anymore!
This is not one of my favourite synthetics to work with, but then, as is my philosophy that I’ve adopted in formulating, perfumery is like art in that no artist would want to limit their palette to just one colour. If I decide to not use synthetics I want to at least try them before making such a move.
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