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Cacao Absolute

CAS 8002-31-1  ·  Natural  ·  Base note  ·  Chocolate cocoa

Impact

7 of 10

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Gourmand 46%Earthy 23%Leather 15%Fruity 8%Sweet 8%
chocolate 85%dried 8%sugary 8%

What does Cacao Absolute smell like?

Deep, dark bitter-chocolate richness with roasted, earthy, slightly leathery-tobacco and dried-fruit facets. The reference natural for chocolate accords, pairing beautifully with vanilla, patchouli and rose.

chocolateearthyleatherytobaccodried fruitsweet

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What is Cacao 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
2,3,5,6-Tetramethylpyrazine 1124-11-4 3%
3-Methylbutanal 590-86-3 1%
Phenylacetaldehyde 122-78-1 0.5%
Linalool 78-70-6 0.4%
Benzaldehyde 100-52-7 0.3%

What else is Cacao Absolute called?

Cocoa absolute  ·  Theobroma cacao seed absolute  ·  Cacao resinoid  ·  Theobroma cacao absolute  ·  Cacao

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What can replace Cacao 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.

  • 2,6-Dimethylpyrazine
    carries Chocolate gourmand, Soil earthy, Coffee gourmand. Dry leather; Dried fruity; Sugary sweet; a molecule standing in for a natural: the rest of the oil does not come with it; lasts about 2.7x shorter on paper
    60%
  • 2,3,5-Trimethylpyrazine 75% + Bran Absolute 25%
    carries Chocolate gourmand, Soil earthy, Coffee gourmand. Dry leather; Dried fruity; Sugary sweet; 2,3,5-Trimethylpyrazine brings the Chocolate gourmand side (75%); Bran Absolute brings the Chocolate gourmand side (25%); lasts about 2.2x shorter on paper
    70%
  • Tetramethylpyrazine 75% + Bran Absolute 25%
    carries Chocolate gourmand, Soil earthy, Coffee gourmand. Dry leather; Dried fruity; Sugary sweet; Tetramethylpyrazine brings the Chocolate gourmand side (75%); Bran Absolute brings the Chocolate gourmand side (25%)
    70%
  • 2,6-Dimethylpyrazine 83% + Cepes Absolute 17%
    carries Chocolate gourmand, Soil earthy, Coffee gourmand. Dry leather; Dried fruity; Sugary sweet; 2,6-Dimethylpyrazine brings the Chocolate gourmand side (83%); Cepes Absolute brings the Mushroom earthy side (17%)
    68%
  • Tetramethylpyrazine 83% + Cepes Absolute 17%
    carries Chocolate gourmand, Soil earthy, Coffee gourmand. Dry leather; Dried fruity; Sugary sweet; Tetramethylpyrazine brings the Chocolate gourmand side (83%); Cepes Absolute brings the Mushroom earthy side (17%)
    68%

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Which materials are closest to Cacao Absolute?

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How much does PerfuMate know about one material?

Counted from the file the app ships, the moment this page was built.

Cacao Absolute

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
5
Sub-categories under them
3
Impact, out of 10
7
Hours on a blotter
estimated from family and band
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
5
Constituent breakdown
5 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.