Melonal

About this material

Melonal is used to contribute notes of watermelon skin, fresh air with a marine undertone. Usually used at well below 1%, this material is due for an outing as an overdose feature in a novel modernist scent. As well as pure, we sell a version of this diluted to 10% because most scent makers will rarely need to use it in pure form. Arctander, in his lesser-known tome on aroma chemicals, suggests it has a practical use in cucumber type products (particularly hand lotions) and as a modifier for the fatty aldehydes where it helps to contribute a clean quality. Melonal is found in Frederic Malle's Carnal Flower at 0.02%, at 0.09% in Amouage's Opus XIV Royal Tobacco , 0.02% in Paco Rabanne Phantom… — Fraterworks

Usage in formulas

The 179th most used material of 1414 in the catalogue, present in 54 of 806 formulas. Used when a specific effect is wanted, not out of habit.