Aquaflora™
Note Profile
About
Aquaflora is a muguet material with water in it. The lily-of-the-valley shape is the whole point, but it is carried on a fresh green, watery frame rather than on the waxy sweetness of the older muguet aldehydes. IFF calls it transparent and names cyclamen as the second flower. The Perfumer's Apprentice lists it as green, marine and fruity, which is the same smell described from the outside. It reads as a lily-of-the-valley seen through water.
Scent Profile
White_floral leads because every source leads with muguet, and IFF calls it a powerful floral muguet note in its first line. It is held below the 0.85 that lily-of-the-valley itself carries, because two of the three sources describe the floralcy as transparent rather than full, and IFF's selling point is that it is watery where the classic muguet materials are waxy. Aquatic_ozonic is next and is the best-corroborated secondary claim: IFF says aquatic naturalcy and watery feel, SpecialChem repeats it, and The Perfumer's Apprentice independently prints marine. Green has the same three-way support - fresh green from IFF, and Green as the first word of the Perfumer's Apprentice odour description. Floral carries the cyclamen, which IFF names twice and calls the interesting part of the material; cyclamen is a watery, non-indolic flower, so it lands on the general floral facet rather than adding to white_floral. Fruity sits on one source only, the Perfumer's Apprentice listing, with no second voice. Aldehydic and no more. The molecule is an acetaldehyde and IFF benchmarks it against muguet aldehydes, but no source describes the smell as aldehydic, so this is a chemical fact given a small allowance rather than a reported odour. Nothing here is indolic, sweet or heavy, and no source suggests otherwise.
ScentWheel
Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.
Origin
A captive synthetic from IFF, sold under the trade name Aquaflora. The molecule is octahydro-4,7-methano-1H-indene-5-acetaldehyde, CAS 1339119-15-1 and 1338815-87-4. It is a single compound, so its smell does not vary by harvest or origin the way a natural extract does. IFF supplies it stabilised with tocopherol and describes it as ultimately biodegradable. It has no natural source and is not an isolate of anything.
Usage in Perfumery
IFF positions it as a more natural-smelling replacement for the older muguet workhorses, Lilial and hydroxycitronellal, and says it works at low levels. Its stated blending partners are Kharismal Super, Liffarome, Peomosa and Helional, all green, watery or floral-aldehydic materials, which is where the note sits in a formula. IFF's own impact chart puts it high in the top and medium in the heart and base, and calls its performance linear. Attested 1 time on Fragrantica and 2 times on Parfumo across 2 brands, so it is a formulation material that has only just started appearing in published note lists.
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