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Cepes Absolute

CAS 68917-13-5  ·  Natural  ·  Base note  ·  Mushroom earthy

Impact

8 of 10

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Earthy 55%Animalic 27%Gourmand 18%
chocolate 33%mushroom 30%musky 27%mossy 10%

What does Cepes Absolute smell like?

Dark, savoury forest floor: wet soil and damp moss under an intense dried-porcini umami, turning faintly musky-animalic and dark-chocolate as it settles. A trace-level fixative that gives leather, chypre and vetiver bases a living, rotting-wood depth no synthetic mushroom note reaches.

earthymushroommossyanimalicmuskychocolate

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What is Cepes 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
1-Octen-3-ol 3391-86-4 5%
3-Octanone 106-68-3 2%
3-Octanol 589-98-0 1.5%
1-Octen-3-one 4312-99-6 0.5%
Benzaldehyde 100-52-7 0.3%
Linalool 78-70-6 0.1%

What else is Cepes Absolute called?

Cepe Absolute  ·  Mushroom Absolute  ·  Porcini Absolute  ·  Boletus edulis absolute  ·  Cepes  ·  Mushroom Absolute (Cepes)

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What can replace Cepes 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.

  • Truffle Concentrate 55% + Patchouli Dark Essential Oil 15% + Tetramethylpyrazine 30%
    carries Mushroom earthy. Musky animalic; Chocolate gourmand; Soil earthy; Mossy earthy; Truffle Concentrate brings the Mushroom earthy side (55%); Patchouli Dark Essential Oil brings the Mossy earthy side (15%); Tetramethylpyrazine brings the Chocolate gourmand side (30%); lasts about 2.9x shorter on paper
    66%
  • Truffle Concentrate 58% + Cacao Absolute 42%
    carries Mushroom earthy. Musky animalic; Chocolate gourmand; Soil earthy; Mossy earthy; Truffle Concentrate brings the Mushroom earthy side (58%); Cacao Absolute brings the Chocolate gourmand side (42%); lasts about 2.6x shorter on paper
    61%
  • Truffle Concentrate 50% + Cacao Absolute 30% + Chypre (F-TEC) 20%
    carries Mushroom earthy. Musky animalic; Chocolate gourmand; Soil earthy; Mossy earthy; Truffle Concentrate brings the Mushroom earthy side (50%); Cacao Absolute brings the Chocolate gourmand side (30%); Chypre (F-TEC) brings the Mossy earthy side (20%); lasts about 2.1x shorter on paper
    65%
  • Truffle Concentrate 55% + Cocoa Resinoid 20% TEC 20% + Humus Ether 25%
    carries Mushroom earthy. Musky animalic; Chocolate gourmand; Soil earthy; Mossy earthy; Truffle Concentrate brings the Mushroom earthy side (55%); Cocoa Resinoid 20% TEC brings the Chocolate gourmand side (20%); Humus Ether brings the Soil earthy side (25%); lasts about 3.0x shorter on paper
    64%
  • Truffle Factor 50% + Cacao Absolute 30% + Chypre (F-TEC) 20%
    carries Mushroom earthy. Musky animalic; Chocolate gourmand; Soil earthy; Mossy earthy; Truffle Factor brings the Mushroom earthy side (50%); Cacao Absolute brings the Chocolate gourmand side (30%); Chypre (F-TEC) brings the Mossy earthy side (20%); lasts about 2.1x shorter on paper
    65%

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Which materials are closest to Cepes Absolute?

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.

Cepes Absolute

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
3
Sub-categories under them
4
Impact, out of 10
8
Hours on a blotter
estimated from family and band
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
6
Constituent breakdown
6 molecules

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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.