In perfumery coconut is warm, milky and sunscreen-sweet — creamy tropical flesh with a faint nutty edge. It brings a beachy, gourmand warmth and makes white florals like tuberose and gardenia read creamier.
FacetsCreamy · milky · tropical · sweet
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SourceCoconut flesh yields no fragrant oil, so the note is built from lactones — gamma-nonalactone and its cousins — sometimes rounded with a little natural coconut. It is essentially a synthetic, aroma-molecule note.
