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Ambergris Artessence™ (Biolandes)

A base — a blend, so no CAS number  ·  Synthetic  ·  Base note  ·  Marine ambergris base

Impact

7 of 10

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Ambergris 50%Animalic 25%Aquatic 17%Woody 8%
salty 39%animalic 33%mineral 18%animalic 9%

What does Ambergris Artessence smell like?

Perfumer's Apprentice files it under animalic and describes the odour as animalic, powerful, iodine and ozonic, supplied as a yellow liquid. The shop is explicit that it contains no animal extract and is not a natural blend: it is a built reconstitution of ambergris rather than a tincture. Bench reports on Basenotes describe it opening dry and woody, almost dusty like old paper, with the animalic sweetness arriving shortly after and holding well. In a formula it is used the way ambergris is used, as a salty mineral undertow beneath woods, amber and musk that stretches the base and lends radiance rather than reading as a note of its own.

animalicmuskydrywoodydiffusivetenacious

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What else is Ambergris Artessence called?

Artessence Ambergris

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What can replace Ambergris Artessence?

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.

  • Absolute Ambergris 68% + Corinal 33% closer in spirit than in chemistry
    carries Salty ambergris, woody. Animalic; Mineral ambergris; Animalic ambergris; Salty aquatic; Mineral aquatic; Ozonic aquatic; Absolute Ambergris brings the Salty ambergris side (67%); Corinal brings the leather side (33%)
    49%
  • Grey Amber B.Base 62% + Corinal 38% closer in spirit than in chemistry
    carries animalic, Animalic ambergris, woody. Salty ambergris; Mineral ambergris; Salty aquatic; Mineral aquatic; Ozonic aquatic; Grey Amber B.Base brings the Animalic ambergris side (62%); Corinal brings the leather side (38%)
    49%
  • Absolute Ambergris 58% + Cuir Vitessence 42% closer in spirit than in chemistry
    carries Salty ambergris, woody. Animalic; Mineral ambergris; Animalic ambergris; Salty aquatic; Mineral aquatic; Ozonic aquatic; Absolute Ambergris brings the Salty ambergris side (58%); Cuir Vitessence brings the Suede leather side (42%)
    48%
  • Grey Amber B.Base 52% + Cuir Vitessence 48% closer in spirit than in chemistry
    carries animalic, Animalic ambergris, woody. Salty ambergris; Mineral ambergris; Salty aquatic; Mineral aquatic; Ozonic aquatic; Grey Amber B.Base brings the Animalic ambergris side (52%); Cuir Vitessence brings the Suede leather side (48%)
    48%
  • Absolute Ambergris 66% + Wood Base 34% closer in spirit than in chemistry
    carries Salty ambergris, woody. Animalic; Mineral ambergris; Animalic ambergris; Salty aquatic; Mineral aquatic; Ozonic aquatic; Absolute Ambergris brings the Salty ambergris side (66%); Wood Base brings the woody side (34%)
    46%

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Which materials are closest to Ambergris Artessence?

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Ambergris Artessence

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
4
Sub-categories under them
4
Impact, out of 10
7
Hours on a blotter
estimated from family and band
CAS number
not on file
Supplier and trade synonyms
1
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
2,172
Carrying several families, in order
2,070
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

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.