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Amber Gamma™ (Privi Speciality Chemicals)

CAS 54464-57-2  ·  Synthetic  ·  Base note  ·  Dry ambery woody

Impact

6 of 10

Substantivity

12 days on a blotter

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Woody 67%Amber 33%
amberwood 78%dry 22%

What does Amber Gamma smell like?

Privi gives the character simply as "Woody, Ambery": a smooth, dry, transparent woody-amber of the octahydrotetramethyl acetonaphthone family, more a velvet backdrop than a sharp cedar. What separates it from an ordinary grade of that chemistry is the declared isomer split, with an alpha and beta balance of its own and a charm peak specified in the low single-digit percent range, because it is the charm isomer that carries most of the perceived odour. Privi publishes a tenacity of about one week and a use level up to ten percent, which is the clue to how it behaves: low impact per drop, but it takes large doses without shouting and it lifts and rounds everything around it. Standard duty is as a volume and diffusion booster under woods, amber and musk.

woodyamberdrywarmtenaciousdiffusive

Use Amber Gamma in a formula

Restricted under IFRA. This material carries a restriction. PerfuMate checks your formula against the 51st Amendment as you build, including the same molecule arriving from several naturals at once. What that covers, and what it does not.

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What can replace Amber Gamma?

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.

  • carries Amberwood woody, Dry amber, Dry woody. Louder, so use a little less; our catalog cannot tell these two apart by their notes, so smell them side by side
    93%
  • Teak
    carries Amberwood woody, Dry amber, Dry woody
    92%
  • Teak 67% + Spirambrene 33%
    carries Amberwood woody, Dry amber, Dry woody. Teak brings the Dry woody side (67%); Spirambrene brings the Dry amber side (33%)
    94%
  • carries Amberwood woody, Dry amber, Dry woody
    87%
  • Teak 82% + Dihydro Ambrate 18%
    carries Amberwood woody, Dry amber, Dry woody. Teak brings the Dry woody side (82%); Dihydro Ambrate brings the Dry amber side (18%)
    91%

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Which materials are closest to Amber Gamma?

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.

Amber Gamma

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
12 days
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
not on file
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.