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Ethyl Lactate

CAS 97-64-3  ·  Synthetic  ·  Top note  ·  Orchard fruit

Impact

3 of 10

Substantivity

4.0 hours on a blotter

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Fruity 55%Gourmand 27%Sweet 18%
jammy 55%caramel 27%caramel 18%

What does Ethyl Lactate smell like?

Sharp, tart fruity note with buttery butterscotch facets; also serves as a mild solvent.

fruitycaramelsweet

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What else is Ethyl Lactate called?

Lactic acid ethyl ester

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What can replace Ethyl Lactate?

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.

  • carries Jammy fruity, Caramel gourmand. Caramel sweet; Toffee gourmand
    64%
  • carries Jammy fruity, Caramel gourmand. Caramel sweet; Toffee gourmand; Ethyl trans-2-Butenoate brings the Jammy fruity side (84%); Furfural brings the Almond gourmand side (16%)
    66%
  • carries Jammy fruity, Caramel gourmand. Caramel sweet; Toffee gourmand; Ethyl trans-2-Butenoate brings the Jammy fruity side (86%); 2-Methyltetrahydrofuran-3-one brings the Coffee gourmand side (14%); lasts about 2.2x longer on paper
    64%
  • carries Jammy fruity, Caramel gourmand. Caramel sweet; Toffee gourmand; Ethyl trans-2-Butenoate brings the Jammy fruity side (79%); 2-Methylbutyric Acid brings the Jammy fruity side (21%)
    63%
  • carries Jammy fruity, Caramel gourmand. Caramel sweet; Toffee gourmand; Ethyl trans-2-Butenoate brings the Jammy fruity side (79%); 2-Octen-4-one brings the Jammy fruity side (21%)
    63%

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Which materials are closest to Ethyl Lactate?

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.

Ethyl Lactate

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
3
Sub-categories under them
3
Impact, out of 10
3
Hours on a blotter
4.0 hours
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
1
Constituent breakdown
not on file

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Classified into an olfactive family
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Carrying several families, in order
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Sub-category assignments
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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.