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Decanoic Acid

CAS 334-48-5  ·  Synthetic  ·  Base note  ·  Fatty aldehydic

Impact

5 of 10

Substantivity

14 days on a blotter

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Aldehydic 67%Animalic 33%
fatty 36%sweaty 33%waxy 30%

What does Decanoic Acid smell like?

Fatty, waxy, soapy-rancid odor with a sour-goaty nuance. Trace-use acid for waxy, cheesy and skin-like effects.

fattywaxysoapysweatyskin-like

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What else is Decanoic Acid called?

Capric acid  ·  n-Decanoic acid  ·  C10 acid

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What can replace Decanoic Acid?

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.

  • Hexanoic Acid
    carries Fatty aldehydic, Sweaty animalic. Waxy aldehydic; Soapy aldehydic; lasts about 2.5x shorter on paper
    64%
  • Hexanoic Acid 62% + Alcohol C-12 Lauric (Dodecanol) 38%
    carries Fatty aldehydic, Sweaty animalic. Waxy aldehydic; Soapy aldehydic; Hexanoic Acid brings the Sweaty animalic side (62%); Alcohol C-12 Lauric (Dodecanol) brings the Waxy aldehydic side (38%)
    78%
  • Hexanoic Acid 65% + Palmitic Acid 35%
    carries Fatty aldehydic, Sweaty animalic, Waxy aldehydic. Soapy aldehydic; Hexanoic Acid brings the Sweaty animalic side (65%); Palmitic Acid brings the Waxy aldehydic side (35%)
    77%
  • Hexanoic Acid 60% + Palmitic Acid 15% + Alcohol C-12 Lauric (Dodecanol) 25%
    carries Fatty aldehydic, Sweaty animalic. Waxy aldehydic; Soapy aldehydic; Hexanoic Acid brings the Sweaty animalic side (60%); Palmitic Acid brings the Waxy aldehydic side (15%); Alcohol C-12 Lauric (Dodecanol) brings the Waxy aldehydic side (25%)
    79%
  • Hexanoic Acid 65% + Ethyl Myristate 35%
    carries Fatty aldehydic, Sweaty animalic, Waxy aldehydic. Soapy aldehydic; Hexanoic Acid brings the Sweaty animalic side (65%); Ethyl Myristate brings the Waxy aldehydic side (35%); lasts about 3.8x shorter on paper
    74%

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Which materials are closest to Decanoic Acid?

Ranked by shared olfactive sub-categories, not alphabetically.

How much does PerfuMate know about one material?

Counted from the file the app ships, the moment this page was built.

Decanoic Acid

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
2
Sub-categories under them
3
Impact, out of 10
5
Hours on a blotter
14 days
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
3
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.