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Cetalox™ (dsm-firmenich)

CAS 3738-00-9  ·  Synthetic  ·  Base note  ·  Mineral ambergris

Impact

7 of 10

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Ambergris 46%Amber 23%Woody 15%Musk 8%Sweet 8%
dry 37%marine 25%salty 13%creamy 9%mineral 8%sugary 8%

What does Cetalox smell like?

Ambergris, dry, woody and old-wood with a clean marine-mineral salinity and a light musk. The most ambergris-forward and least sweet of the ambroxides: softer, rounder and smoother than ambroxan, a smooth ambergris base note.

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What else is Cetalox called?

AMBROTECH  ·  Amber naphthofuran

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Which materials are closest to Cetalox?

Ranked by shared olfactive sub-categories, not alphabetically.

Published formulas using Cetalox

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

What blends well with Cetalox?

Read from the published formulas: beside Cetalox in at least two of them.

What can replace Cetalox?

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.

  • Ambroxan
    carries Marine ambergris, Dry amber, Amberwood woody, Mineral ambergris. Salty ambergris; Warm musk; Creamy woody; lasts about 2.2x longer on paper
    72%
  • Ambroxan 72% + Operanide 28%
    carries Marine ambergris, Dry amber, Amberwood woody, Mineral ambergris. Salty ambergris; Warm musk; Creamy woody; Mineral amber; Ambroxan brings the Marine ambergris side (72%); Operanide brings the Amberwood woody side (28%); lasts about 2.1x longer on paper
    76%
  • Ambroxan 78% + Okoumal 22%
    carries Marine ambergris, Dry amber, Amberwood woody, Mineral ambergris. Salty ambergris; Warm musk; Creamy woody; Ambroxan brings the Marine ambergris side (78%); Okoumal brings the Amberwood woody side (22%); lasts about 2.1x longer on paper
    75%
  • Ambroxan 66% + Ambrofix 34%
    carries Marine ambergris, Dry amber, Amberwood woody, Mineral ambergris. Salty ambergris; Warm musk; Creamy woody; Mineral amber; Ambroxan brings the Marine ambergris side (66%); Ambrofix brings the Warm ambergris side (34%); lasts about 2.2x longer on paper
    74%
  • Ambroxan 76% + Hydroxyambran 24%
    carries Marine ambergris, Dry amber, Amberwood woody, Mineral ambergris. Salty ambergris; Warm musk; Creamy woody; Ambroxan brings the Marine ambergris side (76%); Hydroxyambran brings the Warm amber side (24%); lasts about 2.4x longer on paper
    74%

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Cetalox

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
5
Sub-categories under them
6
Impact, out of 10
7
Hours on a blotter
estimated from family and band
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
2
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.