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How much Anisyl alcohol can you put in a perfume?

IFRA standard: Anisyl alcohol · Category 4, 51st Amendment

0.21%

of the finished perfume, at most

Under the IFRA Standards (51st Amendment, Category 4: fine fragrance on skin), Anisyl alcohol may make up at most 0.21% of the finished perfume. In an eau de parfum at 18%, that is at most 1.16% of your concentrate: 1.16% of every 100 g.

Anisyl alcohol is also one of the EU's declarable fragrance allergens: above 0.001% of a leave-on product it must be named on the label.

Check your own formula in the free IFRA calculator

What the limit means at your strength

The limit is on the finished perfume, so the stronger the perfume, the less Anisyl alcohol its concentrate can hold. If nothing else in the formula carries it:

Perfume strength	Most Anisyl alcohol in the concentrate
Cologne, 5%	4.2%
Eau de toilette, 10%	2.1%
15%	1.4%
Eau de parfum, 18%	1.16%
20%	1.05%
Extrait, 25%	0.84%

Which materials contain Anisyl alcohol?

Sold as Anisyl alcohol itself, counted in full:

Anisyl Alcohol

It also arrives inside other materials. The limit is on the total, so the calculator adds every source together. The largest carriers in PerfuMate's catalog, by their typical composition:

Material	Typical content	Alone at 18%, at most
Vanilla Tahitensis Absolutenatural	8%	14.5% of the concentrate
Heliotrope Base (Heliotropin Replacement)	3%	38.8% of the concentrate
Cherry (F-TEC)	1%	no limit on its own
Vanilla absolutenatural	0.2%	no limit on its own
Vanilla CO2 Extractnatural	0.1%	no limit on its own
Calamus Essential Oilnatural	0.011%	no limit on its own
Vanilla Supreme™ (Fraterworks)	0.0071%	no limit on its own
Vanilla Tincturenatural	0.004%	no limit on its own

Shares are the catalog's typical values. A real batch varies with origin and season, and your supplier's analysis (GC-MS or certificate of analysis) is the real figure.

A worked example

A 100 g concentrate, bottled as an eau de parfum at 18%:

Material	Weighed
Anisyl Alcohol	0.58 g
Vanilla Tahitensis Absolute	8.7 g
Ethylene Brassylate no IFRA limit	90.72 g

Anisyl Alcohol alone brings 0.104% Anisyl alcohol to the finished perfume, and Vanilla Tahitensis Absolute adds 0.125%. Each looks modest, but the perfume holds 0.23% against a limit of 0.21%: 1.09 times the limit. To bring it inside on its own, the calculator cuts Anisyl Alcohol from 0.58 g to 0.526 g and Vanilla Tahitensis Absolute from 8.7 g to 7.885 g. Or keep the formula and bottle it weaker: the highest strength inside every limit is 16.45%.

Open this example in the IFRA calculator

Or paste these lines into the calculator:

Anisyl Alcohol  0.58 g
Vanilla Tahitensis Absolute  8.7 g
Ethylene Brassylate  90.72 g

Questions

Is Anisyl alcohol banned in perfume?

No. IFRA restricts it: at most 0.21% of a fine fragrance (Category 4).

How much Anisyl alcohol can I use in an eau de parfum?

At 18%, at most 1.16% of the concentrate, if nothing else in the formula carries Anisyl alcohol. Every other source counts toward the same total.

Does Anisyl alcohol from essential oils count?

Yes. The limit is on the total in the finished perfume, whatever brings it: Vanilla Tahitensis Absolute typically carries 8%. The calculator adds every source.

Does this limit apply to candles or soap?

No. This is Category 4, fine fragrance on skin. Other products sit in other IFRA categories with other limits, which these pages and the calculator do not cover.