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Beta-Ionone

CAS 14901-07-6  ·  Synthetic  ·  Heart note  ·  Violet iris

Impact

7 of 10

Substantivity

4.7 days on a blotter

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Floral 55%Woody 27%Fruity 18%
violet 55%cedar 27%berry 18%

What does Beta-Ionone smell like?

Powerful dry violet with pronounced woody-cedar and fruity raspberry facets; more diffusive and less sweet than alpha-ionone. Key to violet, osmanthus, boronia and freesia notes, and a classic bridge between floral and woody families.

violetwoodycedarberryfruityfloral

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What else is Beta-Ionone called?

Ionone beta  ·  4-(2,6,6-Trimethyl-1-cyclohexen-1-yl)-3-buten-2-one

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Which materials are closest to Beta-Ionone?

Ranked by shared olfactive sub-categories, not alphabetically.

Published formulas using Beta-Ionone

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

and 2 more.

What blends well with Beta-Ionone?

Read from the published formulas: beside Beta-Ionone in at least two of them.

What can replace Beta-Ionone?

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.

  • alpha-Ionol
    carries Violet floral, Berry fruity, Dry woody. Cedar woody
    80%
  • alpha-Ionol 61% + Ionone (mixed isomers) 39%
    carries Violet floral, Berry fruity, Dry woody. Cedar woody; alpha-Ionol brings the Violet floral side (61%); Ionone (mixed isomers) brings the Violet floral side (39%)
    86%
  • alpha-Ionol 84% + alpha-Cedrene 16%
    carries Violet floral, Berry fruity, Dry woody. Cedar woody; alpha-Ionol brings the Violet floral side (84%); alpha-Cedrene brings the Cedar woody side (16%)
    86%
  • Ionone (mixed isomers)
    carries Cedar woody, Berry fruity, Dry woody. Violet floral
    79%
  • alpha-Ionol 81% + Allyl Alpha-Ionone 19%
    carries Violet floral, Berry fruity, Dry woody. Cedar woody; alpha-Ionol brings the Violet floral side (81%); Allyl Alpha-Ionone brings the Pineapple fruity side (19%)
    83%

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Beta-Ionone

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
3
Sub-categories under them
3
Impact, out of 10
7
Hours on a blotter
4.7 days
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
2
Constituent breakdown
not on file

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Described in words
every one
Impact rating out of 10
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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.