Ethyl Maltol

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Ethyl Maltol is a powerful gourmand aroma chemical that smells of cotton candy, caramelized sugar, toffee, and strawberry jam, sometimes with a faint roasted or metallic sugar sheen; it evokes fairgrounds, warm pastries, and cozy nostalgia. Widely used as a high-impact sweetener and blender, it boosts berry facets, rounds harsh edges, and builds praline/caramel accords—especially with patchouli, vanilla, tonka, ambers, and woods; stronger and cleaner than maltol, it must be dosed judiciously to prevent a cloying, sticky effect.

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