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alpha-Humulene

CAS 6753-98-6  ·  Synthetic  ·  Heart note  ·  Dry woody

Impact

3 of 10

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Woody 50%Green 25%Herbal 17%Spicy 8%
dry 50%herbal 42%black-pepper 8%

What does alpha-Humulene smell like?

Soft, dry woody sesquiterpene with a green hoppy-herbal tone and only a whisper of the clove-pepper warmth its co-occurring partner beta-caryophyllene carries. Quiet naturalizer for hop, hemp, balsam fir and dry woody accords; too weak to lead, useful to make a reconstitution stop smelling synthetic.

woodygreenherbaldryspicy

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What else is alpha-Humulene called?

alpha-Caryophyllene  ·  Humulene  ·  (E,E,E)-alpha-Humulene  ·  alpha-Humulen  ·  2,6,6,9-Tetramethylcycloundeca-1,4,8-triene

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What can replace alpha-Humulene?

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.

  • Juniper Wood Oil
    carries Dry woody, Herbal green, Cedar woody. Aromatic herbal; Black pepper spicy; a natural standing in for a molecule: it brings more than the note you are replacing
    62%
  • Angelica Seed Essential Oil 59% + Thujopsene 41%
    carries Dry woody, Cedar woody, Aromatic herbal. Herbal green; Black pepper spicy; Angelica Seed Essential Oil brings the Aromatic herbal side (59%); Thujopsene brings the Cedar woody side (41%); a natural standing in for a molecule: it brings more than the note you are replacing
    74%
  • beta-Cedrene 44% + Dihydro Terpinyl Acetate 56%
    carries Dry woody, Cedar woody, Aromatic herbal, Black pepper spicy. Herbal green; beta-Cedrene brings the Cedar woody side (44%); Dihydro Terpinyl Acetate brings the Cypress woody side (56%)
    73%
  • alpha-Cedrene 39% + Hop Essential Oil 61%
    carries Dry woody, Cedar woody, Aromatic herbal. Herbal green; Black pepper spicy; alpha-Cedrene brings the Cedar woody side (39%); Hop Essential Oil brings the Aromatic herbal side (61%); a natural standing in for a molecule: it brings more than the note you are replacing
    69%
  • beta-Cedrene 39% + Borneol 61%
    carries Dry woody, Cedar woody, Black pepper spicy. Herbal green; Aromatic herbal; beta-Cedrene brings the Cedar woody side (39%); Borneol brings the Camphor herbal side (61%); lasts about 2.2x longer on paper
    69%

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Which materials are closest to alpha-Humulene?

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.

alpha-Humulene

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
4
Sub-categories under them
3
Impact, out of 10
3
Hours on a blotter
estimated from family and band
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
5
Constituent breakdown
not on file

All 2,211 materials

Described in words
every one
Impact rating out of 10
2125
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.