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Exaltolide® (dsm-firmenich)

CAS 106-02-5  ·  Synthetic  ·  Base note  ·  Clean musk

Impact

3 of 10

Substantivity

21 days on a blotter

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Musk 50%Powdery 25%Aldehydic 17%Animalic 8%
powdery 50%clean 29%animalic 17%warm 4%

What does Exaltolide smell like?

Elegant, warm, powdery-clean macrocyclic musk with discreet animalic and slightly waxy undertones, very close to the lactonic side of natural deer musk. A classic fixative that gives lift and skin-like diffusion to florals, chypres and ambers.

muskypowderycleanwaxyskin-likeanimalic

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What else is Exaltolide called?

EXALTOLIDE TOTAL  ·  Pentadecanolide  ·  Cyclopentadecanolide  ·  Thibetolide  ·  Pentalide  ·  15-Pentadecanolide  ·  Exaltolide Pentadecanolide  ·  Macrolide Supra  ·  Tibetolide

Restricted under IFRA. This material carries a restriction. PerfuMate checks your formula against the 51st Amendment as you build, including the same molecule arriving from several naturals at once. What that covers, and what it does not.

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Published formulas using Exaltolide

Published formulas: PerfuMate's house accords and formulas members chose to publish. The figure is its share of the concentrate.

What can replace Exaltolide?

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.

  • Silvanone Supra
    carries Powdery musk, Musky powdery, Clean musk, Animalic musk. Waxy aldehydic; Powdery aldehydic
    84%
  • Silvanone Supra 51% + Hexadecanolide 49%
    carries Powdery musk, Musky powdery, Clean musk, Waxy aldehydic. Animalic musk; Silvanone Supra brings the Powdery musk side (51%); Hexadecanolide brings the Powdery musk side (49%)
    92%
  • Hexadecanolide 69% + (R)-(-)-Muscone 31%
    carries Powdery musk, Musky powdery, Clean musk, Waxy aldehydic. Hexadecanolide brings the Powdery musk side (69%); (R)-(-)-Muscone brings the Animalic musk side (31%)
    89%
  • Hexadecanolide 54% + Isomuscone 46%
    carries Powdery musk, Musky powdery, Clean musk, Waxy aldehydic. Hexadecanolide brings the Powdery musk side (54%); Isomuscone brings the Powdery musk side (46%)
    88%
  • Hexadecanolide 68% + Muscone 32%
    carries Powdery musk, Musky powdery, Clean musk, Waxy aldehydic. Animalic musk; Musky animalic; Warm musk; Hexadecanolide brings the Powdery musk side (68%); Muscone brings the Animalic musk side (32%)
    88%

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Which materials are closest to Exaltolide?

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How much does PerfuMate know about one material?

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

Exaltolide

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
4
Sub-categories under them
4
Impact, out of 10
3
Hours on a blotter
21 days
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
9
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.