Acetanisole
At a glance
A sweet, hawthorn-like, faintly floral-anisic synthetic ketone used to add soft powdery sweetness in floral and heliotrope-type compositions. It is valued by perfumers for this distinctive character and used as a building block within larger fragrance compositions.
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