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Galaxolide 50% BB (IFF)

CAS 1222-05-5  ·  Synthetic  ·  Base note  ·  Clean musk in benzyl benzoate
Musk 55%Floral 27%Woody 18%
musk 55%floral 27%woody 18%

What does Galaxolide 50% BB smell like?

The benzyl benzoate cut of Galaxolide, one of the standard commercial grades ScenTree lists alongside the IPM, DEP and DPG dilutions. The musk itself is IFF's clean, powerful and versatile iso-chroman musk with exceptional persistence, a quality approaching the tone of macrocyclic musks; supplier odour tags are musk, floral, woody, clean, with berry and milky facets in the drydown. It holds a blotter past two days and carries bloom and lift into the base. The carrier is not neutral the way IPM is: benzyl benzoate is itself faintly sweet-balsamic, it is a listed fragrance allergen, and it can discolour a pale base, so this grade behaves differently from the IPM cut even though the musk is identical. Dosed straight from the bottle at roughly twice the weight of neat Galaxolide.

muskycleanfloralwoodybalsamictenacious

Impact

7 of 10

Typical dilution

Neat

What else is Galaxolide 50% BB called?

Galaxolide 50 BB  ·  Musk 50 BB  ·  HHCB 50% in benzyl benzoate

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.

What can replace Galaxolide 50% BB?

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Which materials are closest to Galaxolide 50% BB?

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.

Galaxolide 50% BB

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

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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
1,810
Hours on a blotter
441
CAS number
1,302
Supplier synonyms
4,935 names
Constituent breakdowns
589

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 558 materials carrying no CAS number the 257 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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