Perfumed products

Claim 1

In a perfumed product which is subject to microbial spoilage and which comprises at least 25% of water and 0.1-60% of a surface active material, the improvement wherein said product contains less than 0.1% of conventional preservatives and 0.05% by weight or more of a preservative perfume wherein at least 30% by weight of said perfume consists of at least one antimicrobially effective perfume ingredient requiring at least three microbial inoculations to failure in an individual challenge test such that said perfume product also requires at least three inoculations to failure in the perfume challenge test, wherein said effective ingredient is selected from the group consisting of compounds according to the formula: ##STR3## wherein X denotes a hydrogen atom, a methyl or a methoxy group, Y denotes an alkylene, alkenylene, alkyleneoxy or alkenyleneoxy group or may be absent and Z denotes a hydrogen atom or a hydroxy, alkyl or alkoxy group, provided that when Z is a hydroxy or alkoxy group and Y is an alkylenoxy or alkenylenoxy group the oxygen atom in Y is attached to the phenylgroup, provided further that when Y is absent Z does not denote a hydroxy group, and wherein Y and Z together have no more than 4 carbon atoms, or the formula: ##STR4## wherein R 1 denotes a saturated or unsaturated aliphatic group, n is 0 or 1, R 2 denotes a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group of up to 5 carbon atoms and wherein R 1 and R 2 together have no more than 14 carbon atoms.