Dihydroactinidiolide

Exactly as Described

This material absolutely lives up to the tea portion of its description. In my brief use and comparison of it, I've found its scent closer to dry tea leaves with a distinct, vaporous textural addition to accords. Short of a tea leaf SFE or absolute, this is the best single-material tea note I've come across. Convincingly and identifiably tea with no difficult to manage secondary notes, or difficult facets. The vaporous texture lends itself to airy floral teas, and denser, gourmand-leaning structures equally when accounted for. As described, it plays nicely with Tonka and coumarin. It has blended well with a number of floral accords as well, tuberose excluded, where I've found the spicy facet of dihydroactinidiolide to exaggerate the bell pepper nuance of my particular terroir of tuberose absolute.

Interesting material

The main note is faint clean white musk. It has some dry/aged leafy nuances that can make it a good base material for several fragrance types like tea, wood, leather, whiskey, etc. Beware that the material is powdery and shipped in a zip lock bag, hence quite messy to get it out and some will remain sticked to the bag!

Nothing…

It only smelled alcoholic after diluting it and I thought mhh guess its more of a base note but the smell never came :,) not sure if there was a mistake but i dont smell anything