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Amber Dust B.Base™ (Moellhausen)

A base — a blend, so no CAS number  ·  Synthetic  ·  Base note  ·  Dry balsamic amber

Impact

6 of 10

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Amber 50%Resinous 25%Sweet 17%Woody 8%
balsamic 49%labdanum 28%vanillic 11%sweet 9%dry 3%

What does Amber Dust B.Base smell like?

Moellhausen presents it in BoldBases #3 as the dry balsamic touch of memories and past: a sweet building block whose vanilla side gently meets the woody note of labdanum. It is a compounded house base, not a single molecule, so it arrives as a finished amber accord: the vanillic sweetness and the dry resinous labdanum are already balanced against each other. Used as the house intends, it is a foundation you build a base on rather than an accent, giving the drydown a warm balsamic floor without having to construct one from separate resin and vanilla materials.

balsamicdrysweetwarmvanillicresinouswoodytenacious

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What can replace Amber Dust B.Base?

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.

  • Ambreine Classic PW
    carries Balsamic amber, Labdanum resinous, Sweet amber, Balsamic resinous. Dry amber; Vanillic sweet; Resinous woody
    67%
  • Ambreine Classic PW 55% + Benzoin Oliffac 999 45%
    carries Balsamic amber, Labdanum resinous, Vanillic sweet, Sweet amber. Dry amber; Resinous woody; Ambreine Classic PW brings the Sweet amber side (55%); Benzoin Oliffac 999 brings the Balsamic resinous side (45%)
    70%
  • Ambreine (F-TEC)
    carries Balsamic amber, Labdanum resinous, Sweet amber, Balsamic resinous. Dry amber; Vanillic sweet; Resinous woody
    65%
  • Ambreine Classic PW 54% + Amber Genesis 46%
    carries Balsamic amber, Labdanum resinous, Vanillic sweet, Sweet amber. Dry amber; Resinous woody; Ambreine Classic PW brings the Sweet amber side (54%); Amber Genesis brings the Warm amber side (46%)
    69%
  • Ambreine (F-TEC) 65% + Benzoin Oliffac 999 35%
    carries Balsamic amber, Labdanum resinous, Sweet amber, Balsamic resinous. Dry amber; Vanillic sweet; Resinous woody; Ambreine (F-TEC) brings the Sweet amber side (65%); Benzoin Oliffac 999 brings the Balsamic resinous side (35%)
    69%

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Amber Dust B.Base

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
4
Sub-categories under them
5
Impact, out of 10
6
Hours on a blotter
estimated from family and band
CAS number
not on file
Supplier and trade synonyms
not on file
Constituent breakdown
not on file

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Sub-category assignments
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A top / heart / base band
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Hours on a blotter
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CAS number
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Supplier synonyms
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Constituent breakdowns
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