In short
Lilyflore is a synthetic alcohol with a soft lily-of-the-valley character. It is used in muguet and fresh floral accords.
What Lilyflore smells like
Lilyflore (Firmenich) is a muguet alcohol with watery and powdery facets. Firmenich calls it a beautiful muguet floral note, with technical descriptors muguet, watery and powdery: a delicate white floral with a lily-of-the-valley bouquet that adds volume and structure and gives a moist, fresh note. Reference data place it between hydroxycitronellal and the muguet aldehydes; suppliers describe a very clear muguet with a bright, transparent white-flower character and a light rosy facet, or delicate green and subtle aquatic touches.
- Leading note
- Clear muguet
- Clear facets
- Watery
- Supporting facets
- Powdery
- Faint facets
- Rosy, green
- Character
- Moist, transparent, fresh, stable
What makes Lilyflore distinctive
A muguet that is moist and slightly powdery, built as an alcohol rather than an aldehyde — so it keeps its character in storage and in harsher products where the muguet aldehydes would fade.
How Lilyflore is used
Used to give volume, structure and a moist, fresh muguet note to white florals in fine and functional fragrance.
Typical role: blender (smooths the joins between other materials).
How Lilyflore differs from similar materials
- Hydroxycitronellal
- Hydroxycitronellal is softer, sweeter and more linden-like; Lilyflore is more watery and powdery, and more stable.
- Florol
- Florol, also a stable Firmenich muguet alcohol, is fresher and more natural, with an ozonic side; Lilyflore is moister and more powdery.
Each difference compares the published descriptions of the two materials. Smell varies with grade, supplier and dilution; compare them side by side on blotters before substituting one for another.
Formulation considerations
Stable in most bases.
Identity and classification
- Type
- Aroma chemical
- Origin
- Synthetic
- Odour family
- Floral / Green
- Note position
- Heart note
- Physical form at room temperature
- Liquid
- CAS number
- 285977-85-7
- Molecular formula
- C12H16O
- Molecular weight
- 176.25 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- (2,5-dimethyl-1,3-dihydroinden-2-yl)methanol
The CAS number, formula and molecular weight are taken from PubChem compound 11367306, whose own record lists this CAS number; checked 19 October 2026.
Safety and compliance
Hazard classification of the neat substance, as PubChem summarises it, read 26 October 2026. Companies notifying the ECHA C&L Inventory classify it (64 reports): H319 causes serious eye irritation (100% of reports); H412 harmful to aquatic life with long lasting effects (100% of reports); H317 may cause an allergic skin reaction (78.1% of reports). A skin sensitiser classification concerns handling the neat material and the dose in a finished product; the IFRA Standards, where they apply, set the limits. Unless it is harmonised, this is the notifiers' own classification, not a binding one.
This page is general information, not a safety assessment or a specification. Confirm identity, composition, IFRA status and allergen content from your supplier's documents for the lot you hold.
Materials it works with
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Florol
Aroma chemical · Floral / Green — muguet, fresh, floral, clean
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Mayol
Aroma chemical · Floral / Green — muguet, fresh, clean, floral
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Hydroxycitronellal
Aroma chemical · Floral / Green — muguet, floral, soft, sweet
Lilyflore is also suggested as a partner on the pages for Lilial, Lyral, Melafleur and Silvial.
Used in formulas and accords
Used in 12 published formulas
Lilyflore is an ingredient in 9 perfume formulas and 3 accords in the Formula & Accord Library.
Community formulas
RUŌOD House Originals
Original compositions by RUŌOD House.
Further reading
Questions about Lilyflore
Is Lilyflore natural or synthetic?
Lilyflore is synthetic — it is made by chemical synthesis.
What is the CAS number of Lilyflore?
285977-85-7. It was checked against PubChem on 19 October 2026.
Which published formulas use Lilyflore?
Lilyflore is used in 12 published formulas in the RUŌOD Lab Formula & Accord Library, including Bell Glass, Champagne Static and Linden Afternoon. Each is listed with a link under "Used in formulas and accords" on this page.
Sources
- PubChem — compound 11367306, checked 19 October 2026.
- PubChem — GHS classification (the ECHA C&L Inventory notifications and any harmonised EU entry), read 26 October 2026.
- dsm-firmenich — Lilyflore® PE 955210 — manufacturer's description.
- The Good Scents Company — Lilyflore — odour database.
- Fraterworks — Lilyflore — distributor's description.
- Olfactory profile: the RUŌOD Lab team's synthesis of the published descriptions above, reviewed 20 October 2026. Evidence: several independent published descriptions, which agree. Classification and the short description: revision 1. Descriptions of odour are judgement, not measurement.