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Civet Absolute

CAS 68916-26-7  ·  Natural  ·  Base note  ·  Civet musky

Impact

9 of 10

Substantivity

17 days on a blotter

Working dilution

1% what we prefill
Animalic 50%Gourmand 25%Musk 17%Floral 8%
civet 47%honey 39%narcotic 8%warm 6%

What does Civet Absolute smell like?

Ferociously fecal and ammoniac in concentration, but at high dilution it blooms into radiant, honeyed animal warmth that makes florals glow with life. The classic 'dirty' secret of jasmine and rose grand classics; use in traces from strong dilution.

animaliccivethoneymuskywarmindolic

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What is Civet 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
p-Cresol 106-44-5 1%
Benzyl alcohol 100-51-6 0.5%

What else is Civet Absolute called?

Civet ext.  ·  Civette  ·  Zibeth  ·  Viverra civetta absolute  ·  Civet

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What can replace Civet 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.

  • Civet Base (synthetic)
    carries Civet animalic, Honey gourmand, Honeyed animalic, Animalic musk. Musky animalic; a molecule standing in for a natural: the rest of the oil does not come with it
    79%
  • Civet Base (synthetic) 84% + Deer Musk Tincture 17%
    carries Civet animalic, Honey gourmand, Honeyed animalic, Animalic musk. Musky animalic; Civet Base (synthetic) brings the Civet animalic side (83%); Deer Musk Tincture brings the Musky animalic side (17%)
    86%
  • Civette Givco 208 35% + Honey Absolute 30% + Civet Base (synthetic) 35%
    carries Civet animalic, Honey gourmand, Honeyed animalic, Animalic musk. Narcotic floral; Civette Givco 208 brings the Civet animalic side (35%); Honey Absolute brings the Honey gourmand side (30%); Civet Base (synthetic) brings the Civet animalic side (35%)
    89%
  • Civette Givco 208 55% + Honey Absolute 45%
    carries Civet animalic, Honey gourmand, Honeyed animalic, Animalic musk. Narcotic floral; Civette Givco 208 brings the Civet animalic side (55%); Honey Absolute brings the Honey gourmand side (45%)
    84%
  • Civet Base (synthetic) 87% + Hay absolute 13%
    carries Civet animalic, Honey gourmand, Honeyed animalic, Animalic musk. Musky animalic; Civet Base (synthetic) brings the Civet animalic side (87%); Hay absolute brings the Honey gourmand side (13%)
    83%

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Which materials are closest to Civet Absolute?

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How much does PerfuMate know about one material?

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Civet Absolute

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
4
Sub-categories under them
4
Impact, out of 10
9
Hours on a blotter
17 days
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
5
Constituent breakdown
2 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.