Levocitrile™ (Takasago)
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What does Levocitrile smell like?
Takasago describes it as much cleaner and closer to lemon than the commonly known racemic mixture, sitting across citrus, green, fruity and floral with the characteristic nitrile undernote beneath. That cleanliness is the point of the chiral grade. It gives a bright lemon top that survives where citrus aldehydes and esters die, with outstanding stability across the whole pH range including inorganic acid cleaners and bleach. In fine fragrance it is a clean citrus lift dosed under five percent; in functional bases it is the reason a lemon top note is still there at the end of the wash. About six hours on the blotter.
What else is Levocitrile called?
l-Citronellyl nitrile · (R)-3,7-Dimethyloct-6-enenitrile
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