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Ambronova™ (Symrise)

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

Impact

9 of 10

Working dilution

1% what we prefill
Amber 46%Woody 23%Musk 15%Animalic 8%Spicy 8%
dry 62%animalic 31%spicy 8%

What does Ambronova smell like?

Symrise present it as the most powerful amber ever with an unparalleled long-lasting effect, and as the third in the dry-woody ambergris trilogy that began with Ambrocenide in 1997 and continued with Ambrostar. Launch coverage describes a potent dry woody-ambery odour with musky aspects, giving a softer, more sensual-animalic character than its predecessors, with peppery accents that make it particularly suited to oud accords. It is built from sustainable alpha-cedrane and carries an unusually low perception threshold. In a formula it behaves like a super-amber with the edges taken off: use it at a trace where Ambrocenide would read too screechy and metallic, for round ambery power and a drydown that will not quit.

amberwoodydrymuskyanimalicspicywarmtenaciousdiffusive

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What can replace Ambronova?

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 Dry amber, Amberwood woody, Dry woody. Animalic musk; Musky animalic; spicy
    70%
  • carries Dry amber, Amberwood woody, Dry woody. Animalic musk; Musky animalic; spicy; Spirambrene brings the Dry amber side (61%); Norlimbanol Dextro brings the Amberwood woody side (39%)
    75%
  • carries Dry amber, Amberwood woody, Dry woody, Musky animalic. Animalic musk; spicy
    69%
  • carries Dry amber, Amberwood woody, Dry woody, Musky animalic. Animalic musk; spicy; Spirambrene brings the Dry amber side (61%); Norlimbanol brings the Dry woody side (39%)
    73%
  • Z11 HD 42% + Norlimbanol 58%
    carries Dry amber, Amberwood woody, Dry woody, Musky animalic. Animalic musk; spicy; Z11 HD brings the Amberwood woody side (42%); Norlimbanol brings the Dry woody side (58%)
    73%

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Which materials are closest to Ambronova?

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How much does PerfuMate know about one material?

Counted from the file the app ships, the moment this page was built.

Ambronova

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
5
Sub-categories under them
3
Impact, out of 10
9
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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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
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.