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beta-Pinene

CAS 127-91-3  ·  Synthetic  ·  Top note  ·  Herbal green

Impact

5 of 10

Substantivity

4.0 hours on a blotter

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Green 50%Woody 25%Citrus 17%Herbal 8%
herbal 64%dry 17%zesty 17%camphor 3%

What does beta-Pinene smell like?

The softer, greener side of pine; woody and citrus-tinged with a dry, nutmeg-like spicy quality. Adds a natural terpenic backbone to citrus reconstructions and a snapped-twig greenness to florals.

greenwoodycitrusaromaticdryfresh

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What else is beta-Pinene called?

2(10)-Pinene

Work out a 10% dilution of beta-Pinene with the free dilution calculator

What can replace beta-Pinene?

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.

  • Camphene
    carries Herbal green, Dry woody, Cypress woody, Camphor herbal. Zesty citrus; Aromatic herbal
    69%
  • alpha-Phellandrene 56% + Camphene 44%
    carries Herbal green, Dry woody, Zesty citrus, Aromatic herbal. Cypress woody; alpha-Phellandrene brings the Zesty citrus side (56%); Camphene brings the Camphor herbal side (44%)
    82%
  • Camphene 51% + Methyl Heptenone 49%
    carries Herbal green, Zesty citrus, Camphor herbal. Dry woody; Cypress woody; Aromatic herbal; Camphene brings the Camphor herbal side (51%); Methyl Heptenone brings the Zesty citrus side (49%)
    77%
  • Camphene 40% + Green Aldehyde (F-TEC) 20% + alpha-Phellandrene 40%
    carries Herbal green, Dry woody, Zesty citrus, Aromatic herbal. Cypress woody; Camphene brings the Camphor herbal side (40%); Green Aldehyde (F-TEC) brings the Leafy green side (20%); alpha-Phellandrene brings the Zesty citrus side (40%)
    81%
  • Camphene 45% + Green Aldehyde (F-TEC) 55%
    carries Herbal green, Aromatic herbal, Camphor herbal. Dry woody; Zesty citrus; Cypress woody; Camphene brings the Camphor herbal side (45%); Green Aldehyde (F-TEC) brings the Leafy green side (55%)
    74%

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Which materials are closest to beta-Pinene?

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.

beta-Pinene

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
4
Sub-categories under them
4
Impact, out of 10
5
Hours on a blotter
4.0 hours
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
1
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.