AtlasFloral
Farnesol
Delicate floral-green with a lily-of-the-valley softness; found in many flower oils.
- Place in the wear
- Heart
- The middle of the wear. Where most of the idea lives.
- Office
- Blender
- A quiet mass that lets the others sit together.
- Family
- Floral
- Type
- Synthetic
- CAS
- 4602-84-0
- Origin
- Synthetic
- Span
- Sits in the heart and carries into the drydown. A measured span on blotter and skin is not yet recorded.
- Odor
- Floral, muguet, green and soft
- FEMA
- 2478
- Allergen
- FARNESOL
A blender from the heart into the base. It sits with nerolidol, hydroxycitronellal and ambrette seed, and it occurs in many flower oils.
Farnesol is a synthetic material; its IUPAC name is (2E,6E)-3,7,11-trimethyldodeca-2,6,10-trien-1-ol. Formula C15H26O, molecular weight 222.37.
In the wear it sits in the heart and carries into the drydown. Its usual office is blender. The atlas files it under Floral, muguet.
It falls under the IFRA Standard “Farnesol” (restriction, Amendment 49). Read the current Standard before use. It is one of the 26 fragrance allergens named in EU cosmetics law, declared on labels as FARNESOL.
IFRA
- Farnesol
Restriction · Amendment 49 · 2020-01
Sources
- Fairamour editorial
- Fairamour editorial
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- Fairamour editorial
- PubChem CID 445070
- PubChem CID 445070 synonyms
- PubChem CID 445070
- PubChem CID 445070
- PubChem CID 445070
- PubChem CID 445070
- EU Cosmetics Regulation (EC) 1223/2009, Annex III — 26 originally listed fragrance allergens
- IFRA Standard: Farnesol (Amendment 49)
- PubChem CID 445070: Physical Description