Gelatin

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Gelatin in perfumery evokes a soft, wobbly jelly-like impression—an ambivalent accord that reads mildly sweet, milky and slightly animalic with a clean, translucent aqueous edge and a faint candied or plasticky fruitiness. It suggests texture as much as smell, conjuring gummy candies, fruit jellies or a silky, wobbling mouthfeel rather than a single botanical source. Typically used sparingly as an effect note, gelatin adds a chewy, bouncy texture to gourmand and fruity compositions or softens floral and marine accords; it’s usually recreated from blends of lactones, musks, ozonic molecules and sweet aldehydes to achieve that translucent, gelatinous character.

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