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Cuir Vitessence™ (Symrise)

A base — a blend, so no CAS number  ·  Synthetic  ·  Base note  ·  Soft suede

Impact

5 of 10

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Leather 55%Animalic 27%Woody 18%
suede 82%animalic 18%

What does Cuir Vitessence smell like?

Soft, suede-like nuances of fine leather: velvety, warm and subtly animalic, an elegant suede rather than the phenolic bite of birch tar. Odour strength is medium but tenacity is very high, with a blotter life suppliers quote in the hundreds of hours, so it behaves as a long-lasting base note that anchors without shouting. Alcohol-soluble only. In a formula it is the leather bed under woody-leather and ambery-oriental structures, sitting well with labdanum and benzoin, and it smooths a fougere spine of lavender, coumarin and musks without ever turning tarry.

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What can replace Cuir Vitessence?

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.

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    carries Suede leather, Animalic leather. Animalic; woody; Saffiano Leather brings the Suede leather side (40%); Corinal brings the leather side (35%); Castoreum Synthetic brings the Animalic leather side (25%)
    73%
  • Saffiano Leather 40% + Royal Leather 674276A 25% + Corinal 35%
    carries Suede leather, Animalic leather. Animalic; woody; Saffiano Leather brings the Suede leather side (40%); Royal Leather 674276A brings the Animalic leather side (25%); Corinal brings the leather side (35%)
    73%
  • Saffiano Leather 47% + Corinal 53%
    carries Suede leather, animalic, woody. Animalic leather; Saffiano Leather brings the Suede leather side (47%); Corinal brings the leather side (53%)
    68%
  • Saffiano Leather 35% + Wood Base 35% + Oud Anokha 30%
    carries Suede leather. Animalic; woody; Animalic leather; Saffiano Leather brings the Suede leather side (35%); Wood Base brings the woody side (35%); Oud Anokha brings the Oud woody side (30%)
    70%
  • Saffiano Leather 40% + Sylven 25% + Oud Anokha 35%
    carries Suede leather, woody. Animalic; Animalic leather; Saffiano Leather brings the Suede leather side (40%); Sylven brings the woody side (25%); Oud Anokha brings the Oud woody side (35%)
    70%

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Which materials are closest to Cuir Vitessence?

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Cuir Vitessence

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
3
Sub-categories under them
2
Impact, out of 10
5
Hours on a blotter
estimated from family and band
CAS number
not on file
Supplier and trade synonyms
not on file
Constituent breakdown
not on file

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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.