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Beeswax Absolute

CAS 8012-89-3  ·  Natural  ·  Base note  ·  Honey

Impact

6 of 10

Substantivity

17 days on a blotter

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Gourmand 50%Aldehydic 25%Sweet 17%Animalic 8%
honey 72%waxy 25%musky 3%

What does Beeswax Absolute smell like?

Warm, honeyed, waxy note with hay, tobacco, pollen and soft animalic facets true to a working beehive. Adds natural honey depth and vintage waxiness to honey, tobacco, mimosa and amber accords. IFF's LMR beeswax absolute carries no hazard classification and no IFRA standard of its own; its IFRA 51 certificate allows 40% of a fine fragrance (category 4), 10% of a deodorant and 2% of a lip product, and its allergen declaration lists fifteen declarable allergens, the largest sclareol at 0.16% and benzyl cinnamate at 0.10%, isoeugenol at 0.002%. Those figures are the constituents the checks here use.

honeywaxytobaccosweetanimalicwarm

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What is Beeswax Absolute 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
Sclareol 515-03-7 0.161%
Benzyl cinnamate 103-41-3 0.098%
Linalool 78-70-6 0.075%
Vanillin 121-33-5 0.032%
Benzyl alcohol 100-51-6 0.026%
Benzyl salicylate 118-58-1 0.025%
Cinnamyl alcohol 104-54-1 0.022%
Benzyl benzoate 120-51-4 0.021%
Coumarin 91-64-5 0.01%
Terpineol 98-55-5 0.005%
Eugenol 97-53-0 0.005%
Linalyl acetate 115-95-7 0.004%
Limonene 5989-27-5 0.004%
Benzaldehyde 100-52-7 0.003%
Isoeugenol 97-54-1 0.002%

What else is Beeswax Absolute called?

Cera alba absolute  ·  Beeswax resinoid  ·  Beeswax

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Published formulas using Beeswax Absolute

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

What blends well with Beeswax Absolute?

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

What can replace Beeswax Absolute?

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.

  • Honey Absolute
    carries Honey gourmand, Honeyed sweet, Honeyed animalic. Waxy aldehydic; Musky animalic; lasts about 2.3x shorter on paper
    69%
  • Honey Absolute 59% + Alcohol C-12 Lauric (Dodecanol) 41%
    carries Honey gourmand, Honeyed sweet, Honeyed animalic. Waxy aldehydic; Musky animalic; Honey Absolute brings the Honey gourmand side (59%); Alcohol C-12 Lauric (Dodecanol) brings the Waxy aldehydic side (41%)
    77%
  • Honey Provence FirAbs 942539 45% + Honey Absolute 15% + Alcohol C-12 Lauric (Dodecanol) 40%
    carries Honey gourmand, Honeyed sweet. Waxy aldehydic; Honeyed animalic; Musky animalic; Honey Provence FirAbs 942539 brings the Honey gourmand side (45%); Honey Absolute brings the Honey gourmand side (15%); Alcohol C-12 Lauric (Dodecanol) brings the Waxy aldehydic side (40%)
    80%
  • Honey Provence (Firmenich) 58% + Alcohol C-12 Lauric (Dodecanol) 42%
    carries Honey gourmand, Honeyed sweet, Honeyed animalic. Waxy aldehydic; Musky animalic; Honey Provence (Firmenich) brings the Honey gourmand side (58%); Alcohol C-12 Lauric (Dodecanol) brings the Waxy aldehydic side (42%); a molecule standing in for a natural: the rest of the oil does not come with it
    74%
  • Honey Provence FirAbs 942539 44% + Honey Absolute 56%
    carries Honey gourmand, Honeyed sweet, Honeyed animalic. Waxy aldehydic; Musky animalic; Honey Provence FirAbs 942539 brings the Honey gourmand side (44%); Honey Absolute brings the Honey gourmand side (56%); lasts about 2.3x shorter on paper
    73%

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Which materials are closest to Beeswax Absolute?

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.

Beeswax Absolute

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

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.