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Fossil amber oil

Natural  ·  Base note
Smoky 50%Leather 25%Resinous 17%Herbal 8%
tar 75%pine 11%camphor 8%balsamic 6%

What does Fossil amber oil smell like?

Dry-distilled Baltic amber (fossilized pine resin): smoky, tarry-resinous and leathery with camphoraceous pine and burnt-balsamic facets - nothing like the sweet 'amber' accord. Niche material for smoky incense, leather and fossil-woody effects in traces.

smokytarryresinousleatherycamphoraceousphenolic

Impact

7 of 10

Typical dilution

1% in solvent

Subfamily

Terpenic resin

Which families does Fossil amber oil belong to?

Resinous · 17%

pine, balsamic

Smoky · 50%

tar, smoke, burnt

Leather · 25%

smoky

Herbal · 8%

camphor

What is Fossil amber oil made of?

An estimated breakdown, not a certificate of analysis, and it is what PerfuMate sums when it checks a formula: a molecule arriving from three naturals at once is counted once rather than missed three times. Paste your own supplier analysis and it takes over.

ConstituentCASShare
Camphene 79-92-5 8%
Borneol 507-70-0 5%
alpha-Pinene 80-56-8 5%
p-Cymene 99-87-6 4%
Succinic acid 110-15-6 3%
Longifolene 475-20-7 3%
Guaiacol 90-05-1 3%
Phenol 108-95-2 2%

What else is Fossil amber oil called?

Baltic amber oil  ·  Succinite oil  ·  Oil of amber

Which materials are closest to Fossil amber oil?

Ranked by how many olfactive sub-categories they share with Fossil amber oil, not alphabetically.

How much does PerfuMate know about one material?

What this page carries, beside what the whole catalog carries. Every figure on the right is counted from the file the app ships, at the moment this page was built, so it cannot drift from the product the way a sentence somebody typed would.

Fossil amber oil

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
4
Sub-categories under them
4
Impact, out of 10
7
Hours on a blotter
estimated from family and band
CAS number
not on file
Supplier and trade synonyms
3
Constituent breakdown
8 molecules

All 1,581 materials

Described in words
every one
Impact rating out of 10
every one
Classified into an olfactive family
1,547
Carrying several families, in order
1,465
Sub-category assignments
7,405 across 214 pairs
A top / heart / base band
1,532
Hours on a blotter
441
CAS number
1,153
Supplier synonyms
4,308 names
Constituent breakdowns
588

And the limits, because they decide how far the rest can be trusted. 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 428 materials carrying no CAS number the 127 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.

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