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Ambergris Tincture

CAS 8038-65-1  ·  Natural  ·  Base note  ·  Mineral ambergris

Impact

4 of 10

Substantivity

17 days on a blotter

Working dilution

3% what we prefill
Ambergris 50%Amber 25%Aquatic 17%Musk 8%
salty 35%marine 23%mineral 19%animalic 12%warm 7%tobacco 5%

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.

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What is Ambergris Tincture made of?

An estimate, not a certificate of analysis. PerfuMate sums it when it checks a formula; 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  ·  Ambergris

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What can replace Ambergris Tincture?

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 Salty ambergris, Marine ambergris, Animalic ambergris, Marine aquatic. Mineral amber; Skin musk; Tobacco amber; Absolute Ambergris brings the Salty ambergris side (71%); Grisalva brings the Warm amber side (29%); a molecule standing in for a natural: the rest of the oil does not come with it
    61%
  • Absolute Ambergris 71% + Ambergris (F-TEC) 29% closer in spirit than in chemistry
    carries Salty ambergris, Marine ambergris, Animalic ambergris, Marine aquatic. Mineral amber; Warm amber; Skin musk; Tobacco amber; Absolute Ambergris brings the Salty ambergris side (71%); Ambergris (F-TEC) brings the Warm ambergris side (29%); a molecule standing in for a natural: the rest of the oil does not come with it
    57%
  • Absolute Ambergris closer in spirit than in chemistry
    carries Salty ambergris, Marine ambergris, Animalic ambergris, Marine aquatic. Mineral amber; Warm amber; Skin musk; Tobacco amber; a molecule standing in for a natural: the rest of the oil does not come with it
    52%
  • carries Salty ambergris, Marine ambergris, Animalic ambergris, Marine aquatic. Mineral amber; Skin musk; Tobacco amber; Absolute Ambergris brings the Salty ambergris side (65%); Grey Amber B.Base brings the Animalic ambergris side (10%); Grisalva brings the Warm amber side (25%); a molecule standing in for a natural: the rest of the oil does not come with it
    60%
  • Absolute Ambergris 66% + Ambrarome Absolue 34% closer in spirit than in chemistry
    carries Salty ambergris, Marine ambergris, Mineral amber, Marine aquatic. Animalic ambergris; Skin musk; Tobacco amber; Absolute Ambergris brings the Salty ambergris side (66%); Ambrarome Absolue brings the Mineral amber side (34%); a molecule standing in for a natural: the rest of the oil does not come with it
    55%

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Which materials are closest to Ambergris Tincture?

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.

Ambergris Tincture

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
4
Sub-categories under them
6
Impact, out of 10
4
Hours on a blotter
17 days
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
5
Constituent breakdown
3 molecules

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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.