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Clary Sage Absolute

CAS 84775-83-7  ·  Natural  ·  Base note  ·  Warm amber

Impact

5 of 10

Substantivity

21 days on a blotter

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Amber 55%Herbal 27%Gourmand 18%
warm 52%aromatic 27%tobacco 21%

What does Clary Sage Absolute smell like?

Sweet ambery-herbaceous absolute loaded with sclareol: hay, tobacco leaf and a honeyed wine-like warmth, with none of the oil's linalyl acetate freshness. The natural of choice for building ambergris and tobacco accords, and a quiet fixative sitting under fougeres and chypres.

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Use Clary Sage Absolute in a formula

What is Clary Sage 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
Sclareol 515-03-7 25%
Linalool 78-70-6 5%
Linalyl acetate 115-95-7 3%
Germacrene D 23986-74-5 2%
Sclareolide 564-20-5 1%
Geraniol 106-24-1 0.4%

What else is Clary Sage Absolute called?

Salvia sclarea absolute  ·  Clary sage absolue  ·  Muscatel sage absolute  ·  Clary absolute  ·  Sclarea absolute

How much Clary Sage Absolute can go in a perfume (IFRA limit)

Work out a 10% dilution of Clary Sage Absolute with the free dilution calculator What is a fixative in perfume?

What can replace Clary Sage 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.

  • Tobacco absolute 63% + Methyl Nicotinate 37%
    carries Warm amber, Aromatic herbal, Tobacco amber, Honey gourmand. Balsamic amber; Sage herbal; Boozy gourmand; Tobacco absolute brings the Tobacco amber side (63%); Methyl Nicotinate brings the Aromatic herbal side (37%)
    69%
  • Tobacco absolute 40% + Amboryl Acetate 30% + Methyl Nicotinate 30%
    carries Warm amber, Aromatic herbal, Tobacco amber. Honey gourmand; Balsamic amber; Sage herbal; Boozy gourmand; Tobacco absolute brings the Tobacco amber side (40%); Amboryl Acetate brings the Vetiver woody side (30%); Methyl Nicotinate brings the Aromatic herbal side (30%)
    70%
  • Methyl Nicotinate 53% + Tobacco Leaf Base 47%
    carries Aromatic herbal, Tobacco amber, Honey gourmand, Balsamic amber. Warm amber; Sage herbal; Boozy gourmand; Methyl Nicotinate brings the Aromatic herbal side (53%); Tobacco Leaf Base brings the Tobacco amber side (47%); a molecule standing in for a natural: the rest of the oil does not come with it; lasts about 2.2x shorter on paper
    65%
  • Methyl Nicotinate 39% + Tobacco Signature Absolute 61%
    carries Warm amber, Aromatic herbal, Tobacco amber, Honey gourmand. Balsamic amber; Sage herbal; Boozy gourmand; Methyl Nicotinate brings the Aromatic herbal side (39%); Tobacco Signature Absolute brings the Tobacco amber side (61%)
    65%
  • Methyl Nicotinate 51% + Bran Absolute 49%
    carries Warm amber, Aromatic herbal, Tobacco amber, Balsamic amber. Honey gourmand; Sage herbal; Boozy gourmand; Methyl Nicotinate brings the Aromatic herbal side (51%); Bran Absolute brings the Chocolate gourmand side (49%); lasts about 2.7x shorter on paper
    65%

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Which materials are closest to Clary Sage Absolute?

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How much does PerfuMate know about one material?

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Clary Sage Absolute

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
3
Sub-categories under them
3
Impact, out of 10
5
Hours on a blotter
21 days
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
5
Constituent breakdown
6 molecules

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Described in words
every one
Impact rating out of 10
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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.