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Citronellal

CAS 106-23-0  ·  Synthetic  ·  Top note  ·  Citrus floral

Impact

6 of 10

Substantivity

16 hours on a blotter

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Citrus 50%Green 25%Floral 17%Aldehydic 8%
lemon 50%leafy 25%rose 17%metallic 8%

What does Citronellal smell like?

Intense citronella-lemon aldehyde with green, slightly rosy-metallic facets; the smell of lemon eucalyptus and insect-repellent candles. Used sparingly for citrus-green lift in rose and muguet, and as the synthetic precursor of hydroxycitronellal.

lemoncitrusgreenrosymetallicaldehydic

Use Citronellal in a formula

What else is Citronellal called?

3,7-Dimethyl-6-octenal  ·  Rhodinal

Restricted under IFRA. This material carries a restriction. PerfuMate checks your formula against the 51st Amendment as you build, including the same molecule arriving from several naturals at once. What that covers, and what it does not.

How much Citronellal can go in a perfume (IFRA limit) Check a formula with Citronellal in the free IFRA calculator

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Published formulas using Citronellal

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

What can replace Citronellal?

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.

  • Citronellyl Nitrile
    carries Lemon citrus, Rose floral, Metallic aldehydic. Leafy green; Zesty citrus
    77%
  • Geranial 57% + Rhodinyl Formate 43%
    carries Lemon citrus, Leafy green, Zesty citrus, Rose floral. Metallic aldehydic; Geranial brings the Lemon citrus side (57%); Rhodinyl Formate brings the Rose floral side (43%)
    87%
  • Geranial 50% + Rhodinyl Formate 15% + Nerol Oxide 35%
    carries Lemon citrus, Leafy green, Zesty citrus, Rose floral. Metallic aldehydic; Geranial brings the Lemon citrus side (50%); Rhodinyl Formate brings the Rose floral side (15%); Nerol Oxide brings the Leafy green side (35%)
    90%
  • Geranial 50% + Nerol Oxide 50%
    carries Lemon citrus, Leafy green, Zesty citrus, Metallic aldehydic. Rose floral; Geranial brings the Lemon citrus side (50%); Nerol Oxide brings the Leafy green side (50%); lasts about 4.1x shorter on paper
    85%
  • Geranial 48% + Rosyrane Super 52%
    carries Lemon citrus, Zesty citrus, Rose floral, Metallic aldehydic. Leafy green; Geranial brings the Lemon citrus side (48%); Rosyrane Super brings the Rose floral side (52%)
    85%

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Which materials are closest to Citronellal?

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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.

Citronellal

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
4
Sub-categories under them
4
Impact, out of 10
6
Hours on a blotter
16 hours
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.