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Benzoic Acid

CAS 65-85-0  ·  Synthetic  ·  Base note  ·  Balsamic

Impact

3 of 10

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Resinous 100%
balsamic 100%

What does Benzoic Acid smell like?

Crystalline acid with a faint dry balsamic odor over a sour, slightly urinous edge that reads as raw benzoin. A trace sharpens and authenticates benzoin, tolu and Peru reconstructions, and it doubles as a mild crystalline fixative.

balsamicdryresinoustenacious

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What else is Benzoic Acid called?

Benzenecarboxylic acid  ·  Phenylformic acid  ·  Dracylic acid  ·  Carboxybenzene  ·  E210

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What can replace Benzoic Acid?

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.

  • Phenylethyl Cinnamate
    Balsamic resinous; Benzoin resinous
    64%
  • Phenylethyl Cinnamate 50% + Hercolyn D 50%
    carries Balsamic resinous. Benzoin resinous; Phenylethyl Cinnamate brings the Balsamic resinous side (50%); Hercolyn D brings the Balsamic resinous side (50%)
    70%
  • Cinnamyl Cinnamate 53% + Hercolyn D 47%
    carries Balsamic resinous. Benzoin resinous; Cinnamyl Cinnamate brings the Balsamic resinous side (53%); Hercolyn D brings the Balsamic resinous side (47%)
    69%
  • Benzyl cinnamate 64% + Phenylethyl Cinnamate 36%
    Balsamic resinous; Benzoin resinous; Benzyl cinnamate brings the Balsamic resinous side (64%); Phenylethyl Cinnamate brings the Balsamic resinous side (36%)
    68%
  • Cinnamyl Cinnamate 55% + Phenylethyl Cinnamate 45%
    Balsamic resinous; Benzoin resinous; Cinnamyl Cinnamate brings the Balsamic resinous side (55%); Phenylethyl Cinnamate brings the Balsamic resinous side (45%)
    68%

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Which materials are closest to Benzoic Acid?

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.

Benzoic Acid

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
1
Sub-categories under them
1
Impact, out of 10
3
Hours on a blotter
estimated from family and band
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
5
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.