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Oh, interesting...

I thought this was already known to be a blend of compounds with ethyl trans-cinnamate [1] among them; I'll have to read up on it. For a Workshop on Synthetic Organic Chemistry in college, my class teammates and I had to come up with a process to synthesize and "commercialize" that particular compound. We jokingly made a hand cream that had the possible side effect of attracting a swarm of female moths.

[1] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.214.4527.1359

It’s all fun and games until you accidentally summon Mothra.