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Furfural

CAS 98-01-1  ·  Synthetic  ·  Top note  ·  Caramel toffee

Impact

5 of 10

Substantivity

4.0 hours on a blotter

Working dilution

1% what we prefill
Gourmand 55%Sweet 27%Woody 18%
almond 36%caramel 36%caramel 27%

What does Furfural smell like?

Sweet, bready, almond-caramel note with woody-brown, freshly-baked facets. Adds toasted, oven-warm realism to bread, coffee, nut and caramel accords in traces.

sweetalmondcaramelwoodynutty

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What else is Furfural called?

2-Furaldehyde  ·  Furfuraldehyde  ·  Furan-2-carbaldehyde

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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What can replace Furfural?

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.

  • 2-Methyl-3-(methylthio)pyrazine closer in spirit than in chemistry
    carries Caramel sweet. Almond gourmand; Caramel gourmand; Dry woody; louder, so use a little less; lasts about 5.0x longer on paper
    49%
  • 2-Methyl-3-(methylthio)pyrazine 73% + Ethyl Lactate 27% closer in spirit than in chemistry
    carries Caramel sweet, Caramel gourmand. Almond gourmand; Dry woody; 2-Methyl-3-(methylthio)pyrazine brings the Praline gourmand side (73%); Ethyl Lactate brings the Jammy fruity side (27%); lasts about 3.9x longer on paper
    53%
  • Benzaldehyde 63% + Ethyl Lactate 37% closer in spirit than in chemistry
    carries Almond gourmand. Caramel sweet; Caramel gourmand; Dry woody; Benzaldehyde brings the Almond gourmand side (63%); Ethyl Lactate brings the Jammy fruity side (37%)
    53%
  • 2-Methyl-3-(methylthio)pyrazine 52% + Benzaldehyde 48% closer in spirit than in chemistry
    carries Almond gourmand. Caramel sweet; Caramel gourmand; Dry woody; 2-Methyl-3-(methylthio)pyrazine brings the Praline gourmand side (52%); Benzaldehyde brings the Almond gourmand side (48%); louder, so use a little less; lasts about 3.1x longer on paper
    52%
  • 2-Methyl-3-(methylthio)pyrazine 60% + trans-2-Hexenal 40% closer in spirit than in chemistry
    carries Almond gourmand, Caramel sweet. Caramel gourmand; Dry woody; 2-Methyl-3-(methylthio)pyrazine brings the Praline gourmand side (60%); trans-2-Hexenal brings the Leafy green side (40%); louder, so use a little less; lasts about 3.0x longer on paper
    48%

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Which materials are closest to Furfural?

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.

Furfural

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
3
Sub-categories under them
3
Impact, out of 10
5
Hours on a blotter
4.0 hours
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.