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Ambrox Classique (dsm-firmenich)

CAS 6790-58-5  ·  Synthetic  ·  Base note  ·  Ambergris amber
Ambergris 55%Amber 27%Woody 18%
ambergris 55%amber 27%woody 18%

What does Ambrox Classique smell like?

Firmenich's captive grade of ambroxide, the benchmark the other houses' ambrox articles are measured against. It is not sold outside the house except as a 10% dilution in Fixateur 404. Sources describe it as providing radiance and a woody odour, the scent most people mean when they say amber, carrying the powerful musky-woody ambergris tonality shared across the Ambrox family. A base-note fixative that is diffusive enough to be felt from the opening through to the drydown.

amberwoodywarmdiffusivetenacious

Impact

8 of 10

Typical dilution

10% in solvent

What can replace Ambrox Classique?

Computed, not collected from forums. A pair covers together what one cannot. The number is the engine's match, not a promise.

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Which materials are closest to Ambrox Classique?

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.

Ambrox Classique

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
3
Sub-categories under them
3
Impact, out of 10
8
Hours on a blotter
estimated from family and band
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
not on file
Constituent breakdown
not on file

All 2,027 materials

Described in words
every one
Impact rating out of 10
every one
Classified into an olfactive family
1,989
Carrying several families, in order
1,893
Sub-category assignments
7,409 across 214 pairs
A top / heart / base band
1,974
Hours on a blotter
441
CAS number
1,487
Supplier synonyms
5,222 names
Constituent breakdowns
667

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 540 materials carrying no CAS number the 248 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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