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Benzyl Cyanide

CAS 140-29-4  ·  Synthetic  ·  Heart note  ·  Honeyed floral

Impact

6 of 10

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Floral 50%Gourmand 25%Sweet 17%Animalic 8%
honeyed 83%rose 17%

What does Benzyl Cyanide smell like?

Sweet, honeyed-floral odor with a warm rosy and slightly animalic-cress nuance. Used in trace for honey and floral depth.

floralhoneyrosysweetanimalic

Use Benzyl Cyanide in a formula

What else is Benzyl Cyanide called?

Phenylacetonitrile  ·  alpha-Tolunitrile  ·  Benzyl nitrile

Restricted under IFRA. This material carries a restriction. PerfuMate checks your formula against the 51st Amendment as you build, including the same molecule arriving from several naturals at once. What that covers, and what it does not.

How much Benzyl Cyanide can go in a perfume (IFRA limit) Check a formula with Benzyl Cyanide in the free IFRA calculator

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What can replace Benzyl Cyanide?

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.

  • Rosacetol
    carries Honeyed floral, Honey gourmand, Rose floral, Honeyed sweet. Honeyed animalic
    85%
  • Rosacetol 82% + Honey (F-TEC) 18%
    carries Honey gourmand, Rose floral, Honeyed sweet. Honeyed floral; Honeyed animalic; Rosacetol brings the Rose floral side (82%); Honey (F-TEC) brings the Honey gourmand side (18%)
    86%
  • Geranyl Phenylacetate 16% + Rosacetol 84%
    carries Honeyed floral, Honey gourmand, Rose floral, Honeyed sweet. Honeyed animalic; Geranyl Phenylacetate brings the Honey gourmand side (16%); Rosacetol brings the Rose floral side (84%)
    85%
  • Rosacetol 76% + 2-Phenylethyl Butyrate 24%
    carries Honeyed floral, Honey gourmand, Rose floral, Honeyed sweet. Honeyed animalic; Rosacetol brings the Rose floral side (76%); 2-Phenylethyl Butyrate brings the Rose floral side (24%)
    85%
  • Rosacetol 83% + Ethyl Phenoxyacetate 17%
    carries Honeyed floral, Honey gourmand, Rose floral, Honeyed sweet. Honeyed animalic; Rosacetol brings the Rose floral side (83%); Ethyl Phenoxyacetate brings the Rose floral side (17%)
    85%

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Which materials are closest to Benzyl Cyanide?

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.

Benzyl Cyanide

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
4
Sub-categories under them
2
Impact, out of 10
6
Hours on a blotter
estimated from family and band
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
3
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.