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gamma-Valerolactone

CAS 108-29-2  ·  Synthetic  ·  Heart note  ·  Vanillic

Impact

4 of 10

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Sweet 55%Herbal 27%Gourmand 18%
sugary 55%aromatic 27%tonka 12%toffee 6%

What does gamma-Valerolactone smell like?

Warm, sweet herbaceous-tobacco lactone with a faint coumarinic body; used in tobacco, coumarin and soft gourmand accords.

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What else is gamma-Valerolactone called?

gamma-Pentalactone  ·  5-Methyldihydrofuran-2(3H)-one

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What can replace gamma-Valerolactone?

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.

  • Methyl Eugenol closer in spirit than in chemistry
    carries Sugary sweet, Aromatic herbal. Tonka gourmand; Toffee gourmand
    55%
  • Methyl Eugenol 46% + Toscanol 55% closer in spirit than in chemistry
    carries Sugary sweet, Aromatic herbal. Tonka gourmand; Toffee gourmand; Methyl Eugenol brings the Clove spicy side (46%); Toscanol brings the Anisic herbal side (54%)
    58%
  • Methyl Eugenol 74% + Rose Otto (F-TEC) 26% closer in spirit than in chemistry
    carries Sugary sweet. Aromatic herbal; Tonka gourmand; Toffee gourmand; Methyl Eugenol brings the Clove spicy side (74%); Rose Otto (F-TEC) brings the Rose floral side (26%)
    57%
  • Methyl Eugenol 58% + Methyl Anisate 42% closer in spirit than in chemistry
    carries Aromatic herbal. Sugary sweet; Tonka gourmand; Toffee gourmand; Methyl Eugenol brings the Clove spicy side (58%); Methyl Anisate brings the Anisic herbal side (42%)
    56%
  • Methyl Eugenol 51% + Benzyl Isovalerate 49% closer in spirit than in chemistry
    Sugary sweet; Aromatic herbal; Tonka gourmand; Toffee gourmand; Methyl Eugenol brings the Clove spicy side (51%); Benzyl Isovalerate brings the Apple fruity side (49%)
    55%

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Which materials are closest to gamma-Valerolactone?

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.

gamma-Valerolactone

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
3
Sub-categories under them
4
Impact, out of 10
4
Hours on a blotter
estimated from family and band
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
2
Constituent breakdown
not on file

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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.