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Ambergris Tincture

Natural  ·  Base note
Ambergris 50%Amber 25%Aquatic 17%Musk 8%
salty 35%marine 23%mineral 22%animalic 12%warm 8%

What does Ambergris Tincture smell like?

True tincture of beach-cast sperm whale ambergris: subtle, complex halo of salty skin, seawater, tobacco, old paper and radiant musky warmth that exalts everything in a formula. Legendary natural fixative used at 1-5% tincture strength; rare, costly and ethically/legally restricted in some countries.

ambergrissaltyskin-likemarinetobaccomuskyaquaticozonic

Impact

4 of 10

Substantivity

17 days on a blotter

Typical dilution

3% in solvent

Subfamily

Mineral ambergris

Which families does Ambergris Tincture belong to?

Amber · 25%

mineral, warm

Ambergris · 50%

salty, marine, animalic

Aquatic · 17%

marine, salty, ozonic

Musk · 8%

skin, animalic

What is Ambergris Tincture made of?

An estimated breakdown, not a certificate of analysis, and it is what PerfuMate sums when it checks a formula: a molecule arriving from three naturals at once is counted once rather than missed three times. Paste your own supplier analysis and it takes over.

ConstituentCASShare
Ambrein 473-03-0 30%
Epicoprostanol 516-92-7 25%
Ambroxide 6790-58-5 0.5%

What else is Ambergris Tincture called?

Ambra grisea tincture  ·  Grey amber tincture  ·  Ambergris 3% tincture  ·  Ambra grisea

Which materials are closest to Ambergris Tincture?

Ranked by how many olfactive sub-categories they share with Ambergris Tincture, not alphabetically.

How much does PerfuMate know about one material?

What this page carries, beside what the whole catalog carries. Every figure on the right is counted from the file the app ships, at the moment this page was built, so it cannot drift from the product the way a sentence somebody typed would.

Ambergris Tincture

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

All 1,581 materials

Described in words
every one
Impact rating out of 10
every one
Classified into an olfactive family
1,547
Carrying several families, in order
1,465
Sub-category assignments
7,405 across 214 pairs
A top / heart / base band
1,532
Hours on a blotter
441
CAS number
1,153
Supplier synonyms
4,308 names
Constituent breakdowns
588

And the limits, because they decide how far the rest can be trusted. 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 428 materials carrying no CAS number the 127 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.

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