OlfactionaryBourgeonal
At a glance
Bourgeonal is a key building block of synthetic muguet (lily-of-the-valley) accords, giving the dewy, aqueous-green quality of realistic spring-floral compositions. It gained outside attention in 2003 when researchers found it activates a receptor (hOR17-4) on human sperm cells.
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