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Fragrance material review on hexadecanolide

D McGinty1, C S Letizia, A M Api

  • 1Research Institute for Fragrance Materials, Inc., 50 Tice Boulevard, Woodcliff Lake, NJ 07677, USA. dmcginty@RIFM.org

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