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Ambrox DL™ (dsm-firmenich)

CAS 3738-00-9  ·  Synthetic  ·  Base note  ·  Rich amber woody

Impact

8 of 10

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Amber 55%Woody 27%Ambergris 18%
warm 82%warm 18%

What does Ambrox DL smell like?

The house marketing sheet gives the olfactive description as an elegant amber note with a rich woody character, and files the product under Ambery. On perfumery usage it states that the ingredient provides warmth, richness and elegance to all areas of perfumery from sheer florals to modern orientals, and that due to its power the best effects can be achieved at lower dosages, although higher levels are often used to provide performance and substantivity. It is a solid, behaves as a heart and base note, and lasts a month on a smelling strip. Fine fragrance dosage runs 0.5% to 3%, with much lower ranges across shampoo, soap, detergent and candle.

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What can replace Ambrox DL?

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 Amberwood woody, Warm ambergris. Warm amber
    71%
  • Madrox 46% + Cedar Ketol 54%
    carries Amberwood woody. Warm amber; Warm ambergris; Madrox brings the Amberwood woody side (46%); Cedar Ketol brings the Cedar woody side (54%)
    72%
  • carries Amberwood woody, Warm ambergris. Warm amber; Madrox brings the Amberwood woody side (55%); AmberNoir (F-TEC) brings the Animalic ambergris side (45%)
    71%
  • Madrox 64% + Aldron 36%
    carries Amberwood woody. Warm amber; Warm ambergris; Madrox brings the Amberwood woody side (64%); Aldron brings the Musky animalic side (36%)
    70%
  • Madrox 54% + Dextramber 46%
    carries Amberwood woody. Warm amber; Warm ambergris; Madrox brings the Amberwood woody side (54%); Dextramber brings the Dry amber side (46%)
    70%

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Ambrox DL

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
3
Sub-categories under them
2
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

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Impact rating out of 10
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Classified into an olfactive family
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Carrying several families, in order
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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

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