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Ambroxan® (Kao Corporation)

CAS 6790-58-5  ·  Synthetic  ·  Base note  ·  Mineral ambergris

Impact

7 of 10

Substantivity

17 days on a blotter

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Ambergris 50%Amber 25%Woody 17%Sweet 8%
marine 33%amberwood 27%mineral 17%sweet 15%sugary 8%

What does Ambroxan smell like?

Ambergris, woody and dry with a labdanum warmth, a soft marine-mineral salinity and a light sweetness. Radiant and long-lasting; the backbone of modern amber and skin-scent perfumery, from traces to bold overdoses.

amberambergrissweetlabdanumdrywoodytobaccotenaciousmarinemineral

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What else is Ambroxan called?

Ambroxan Crystals  ·  Ambroxide

How much Ambroxan can go in a perfume (IFRA limit)

Work out a 10% dilution of Ambroxan with the free dilution calculator How much Ambroxan to use in a perfume Iso E Super vs Ambroxan, Hedione and Galaxolide

Which materials are closest to Ambroxan?

Ranked by shared olfactive sub-categories, not alphabetically.

The story of Ambroxan

For most of perfumery's history the smell called ambergris came from an actual substance: a waxy lump formed in the gut of a sperm whale, expelled, and left to drift for years until the sea and the sun turned it from something foul into something extraordinary. Washed up and aged, it smelled of warm skin, salt, tobacco and old paper at once, and it fixed everything it touched. It was also rare, expensive, and ethically impossible once the whale trade ended.

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Published formulas using Ambroxan

Published formulas: PerfuMate's house accords and formulas members chose to publish. The figure is its share of the concentrate.

What blends well with Ambroxan?

Read from the published formulas: beside Ambroxan in at least two of them.

What can replace Ambroxan?

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.

  • Ambrox Super
    carries Marine ambergris, Mineral ambergris, Amberwood woody, Sweet amber. The same molecule, sold under another name
    93%
  • Cetalox
    carries Marine ambergris, Mineral ambergris, Amberwood woody, Sugary sweet. Sweet amber; lasts about 2.2x shorter on paper
    72%
  • Cetalox 83% + Ambermor 17%
    carries Marine ambergris, Amberwood woody, Sugary sweet, Warm amber. Mineral ambergris; Sweet amber; Cetalox brings the Marine ambergris side (83%); Ambermor brings the Sweet amber side (17%)
    75%
  • Amber Decane 60% + Ambermor 40%
    carries Amberwood woody, Sweet amber, Warm amber, Dry amber. Marine ambergris; Mineral ambergris; Sugary sweet; Amber Decane brings the Dry amber side (60%); Ambermor brings the Sweet amber side (40%)
    60%
  • Cetalox 83% + Ambermor-Ex 17%
    carries Marine ambergris, Amberwood woody, Sugary sweet, Warm amber. Mineral ambergris; Sweet amber; Cetalox brings the Marine ambergris side (83%); Ambermor-Ex brings the Sweet amber side (17%); lasts about 2.4x shorter on paper
    73%

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Ambroxan

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
4
Sub-categories under them
5
Impact, out of 10
7
Hours on a blotter
17 days
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
2
Constituent breakdown
not on file

All 2,211 materials

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.