OlfactionaryBenzyl salicylate
At a glance
A soft, sweet, faintly floral-balsamic ester valued as a natural-smelling fixative, often used in ylang-ylang and floral bases. It is valued by perfumers for this distinctive character and used as a building block within larger fragrance compositions.
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