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6-Pentyl-alpha-pyrone

CAS 27593-23-3  ·  Synthetic  ·  Heart note  ·  Coconut lactonic

Impact

6 of 10

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Gourmand 46%Tropical 23%Sweet 15%Aldehydic 8%Earthy 8%
coconut 62%tonka 31%mushroom 8%

What does 6-Pentyl-alpha-pyrone smell like?

Tonka-lactonic coconut with a creamy, fatty-waxy body and a mushroom-dairy shadow, the Trichoderma coconut molecule. An unsaturated pyrone rather than a massoia-type lactone, so it gives natural fresh-coconut without massoia's caramelized bitterness or its IFRA burden.

coconutmilkywaxysweetmushroom

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What else is 6-Pentyl-alpha-pyrone called?

6-Amyl-alpha-pyrone  ·  6-Pentyl-2H-pyran-2-one  ·  6-Pentyl-2-pyrone  ·  6PP  ·  6-n-Pentyl-alpha-pyrone

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What can replace 6-Pentyl-alpha-pyrone?

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.

  • delta-Octalactone
    carries Coconut gourmand, Coconut tropical, Creamy sweet, Creamy tropical. Tonka gourmand; Mushroom earthy; Waxy aldehydic
    66%
  • gamma-Nonalactone 30% + delta-Heptalactone 45% + Dihydrocoumarin 25%
    carries Coconut gourmand, Tonka gourmand, Coconut tropical, Creamy sweet. Mushroom earthy; Waxy aldehydic; gamma-Nonalactone brings the Coconut gourmand side (30%); delta-Heptalactone brings the Coconut gourmand side (45%); Dihydrocoumarin brings the Creamy sweet side (25%); lasts about 2.3x longer on paper
    78%
  • Dihydrocoumarin 29% + delta-Heptalactone 71%
    carries Coconut gourmand, Tonka gourmand, Coconut tropical, Creamy sweet. Mushroom earthy; Waxy aldehydic; Dihydrocoumarin brings the Creamy sweet side (29%); delta-Heptalactone brings the Coconut gourmand side (71%); lasts about 2.8x longer on paper
    73%
  • Dihydrocoumarin 25% + delta-Heptalactone 60% + Nonanoic Acid 15%
    carries Coconut gourmand, Tonka gourmand, Coconut tropical, Creamy sweet. Mushroom earthy; Waxy aldehydic; Dihydrocoumarin brings the Creamy sweet side (25%); delta-Heptalactone brings the Coconut gourmand side (60%); Nonanoic Acid brings the Waxy aldehydic side (15%); lasts about 2.4x longer on paper
    76%
  • delta-Octalactone 82% + Nonanoic Acid 18%
    carries Coconut gourmand, Coconut tropical, Creamy sweet, Creamy tropical. Tonka gourmand; Mushroom earthy; delta-Octalactone brings the Coconut gourmand side (82%); Nonanoic Acid brings the Waxy aldehydic side (18%)
    71%

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Which materials are closest to 6-Pentyl-alpha-pyrone?

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6-Pentyl-alpha-pyrone

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
5
Sub-categories under them
3
Impact, out of 10
6
Hours on a blotter
estimated from family and band
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
5
Constituent breakdown
not on file

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

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