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2,6-Dimethylpyrazine

CAS 108-50-9  ·  Synthetic  ·  Heart note  ·  Chocolate cocoa

Impact

6 of 10

Working dilution

1% what we prefill
Gourmand 67%Earthy 33%
chocolate 88%praline 12%

What does 2,6-Dimethylpyrazine smell like?

Roasted, earthy-nutty pyrazine with cocoa and coffee facets over a faintly ethereal lift. Drier and less meaty than the 2,3-isomer, it is a standard trace workhorse for rounding roasted gourmand and coffee accords.

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What else is 2,6-Dimethylpyrazine called?

2,6-Dimethyl Pyrazine  ·  Torref Pyrazine

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What can replace 2,6-Dimethylpyrazine?

Computed, not collected from forums. A pair covers together what one cannot. The number is how much of this material's character a bottle carries, not a promise that it is the same thing.

  • 2,3,5-Trimethylpyrazine
    carries Chocolate gourmand, Soil earthy, Coffee gourmand, Praline gourmand. Lasts about 3.0x shorter on paper; our catalog cannot tell these two apart by their notes, so smell them side by side
    91%
  • 2,5-Dimethylpyrazine
    carries Chocolate gourmand, Soil earthy, Coffee gourmand, Praline gourmand. Lasts about 3.2x shorter on paper
    89%
  • 2,5-Dimethylpyrazine 71% + Tetramethylpyrazine 29%
    carries Chocolate gourmand, Soil earthy, Coffee gourmand, Praline gourmand. 2,5-Dimethylpyrazine brings the Chocolate gourmand side (71%); Tetramethylpyrazine brings the Chocolate gourmand side (29%)
    93%
  • 2-Methylpyrazine 32% + Tetramethylpyrazine 68%
    carries Chocolate gourmand, Soil earthy, Coffee gourmand. Praline gourmand; 2-Methylpyrazine brings the Praline gourmand side (32%); Tetramethylpyrazine brings the Chocolate gourmand side (68%)
    92%
  • 2-Methylpyrazine
    carries Chocolate gourmand, Soil earthy, Coffee gourmand, Praline gourmand. Lasts about 3.2x shorter on paper
    87%

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Which materials are closest to 2,6-Dimethylpyrazine?

Ranked by shared olfactive sub-categories, not alphabetically.

How much does PerfuMate know about one material?

Counted from the file the app ships, the moment this page was built.

2,6-Dimethylpyrazine

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
2
Sub-categories under them
2
Impact, out of 10
6
Hours on a blotter
estimated from family and band
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
2
Constituent breakdown
not on file

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Described in words
every one
Impact rating out of 10
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Classified into an olfactive family
2,172
Carrying several families, in order
2,070
Sub-category assignments
9,899 across 229 pairs
A top / heart / base band
2,157
Hours on a blotter
898
CAS number
1,642
Supplier synonyms
5,888 names
Constituent breakdowns
739

Every regulatory join - IFRA, GHS, allergens - is by CAS number, and a material can supply one through its constituents as well as its own row, so of the 569 materials carrying no CAS number the 244 without a constituent table are the ones that return "nothing known" rather than "nothing applies". The blotter hours are sourced rather than measured by us, and the app labels every one of them an estimate. There is no physical chemistry on a row: no molecular weight, no vapour pressure, no boiling point. The longer answer, or the whole catalog counted.