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Galaxolide 50% BB™ (IFF)

CAS 1222-05-5  ·  Synthetic  ·  Base note  ·  Clean musk in benzyl benzoate

Impact

7 of 10

Substantivity

4.2 days on a blotter

Working dilution

Neat
Musk 55%Floral 27%Woody 18%
clean 36%floral 27%fruity 18%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

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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.

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What can replace Galaxolide 50% BB?

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.

  • Galaxolide 50% IPM
    carries Clean musk, floral, woody, Fruity musk. The same molecule, sold under another name
    100%
  • Aerolide 55% + Souroubea Givco 202 46%
    carries Clean musk, floral. Woody; Fruity musk; Aerolide brings the Clean musk side (55%); Souroubea Givco 202 brings the floral side (45%); lasts about 3.0x longer on paper
    65%
  • Aerolide 42% + Dihydrofloralol 59%
    carries Clean musk, floral. Woody; Fruity musk; Aerolide brings the Clean musk side (42%); Dihydrofloralol brings the floral side (58%); lasts about 2.3x longer on paper
    65%
  • Helvetolide 66% + Souroubea Givco 202 35%
    carries floral, Fruity musk. Clean musk; woody; Helvetolide brings the Fruity musk side (65%); Souroubea Givco 202 brings the floral side (35%); softer, so use a little more; lasts about 3.0x longer on paper
    65%
  • Aerolide 47% + Pittosporum 34 53%
    carries Clean musk, floral. Woody; Fruity musk; Aerolide brings the Clean musk side (47%); Pittosporum 34 brings the floral side (53%); lasts about 2.7x longer on paper
    64%

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Which materials are closest to Galaxolide 50% BB?

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Galaxolide 50% BB

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

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Described in words
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Impact rating out of 10
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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.