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Geosmin

CAS 19700-21-1  ·  Synthetic  ·  Heart note
Earthy 67%Green 33%
petrichor 55%vegetal 22%beet 12%mossy 11%

What does Geosmin smell like?

Petrichor itself: wet earth after the first rain on a dry field, beetroot skin, damp cellar air. Deceptively soft in a 1% smelling - and one of the most potent odorants known (threshold in parts per trillion), a drop or two carries an entire formula. Trace use only, or everything turns dusty.

earthypetrichorvegetalmushroomdiffusive

Impact

10 of 10

Substantivity

2.8 days on a blotter

Typical dilution

0.1% in solvent

Subfamily

Mushroom earthy

Which families does Geosmin belong to?

Green · 33%

vegetal, mossy

Earthy · 67%

petrichor, mushroom, beet

What else is Geosmin called?

trans-1,10-Dimethyl-trans-9-decalol

Published formulas using Geosmin

PerfuMate's own reference accords, published to its community, that reach for this material. The figure is its share of the concentrate.

What blends well with Geosmin?

Read from the published accords rather than asserted: these materials appear beside Geosmin in at least two of the reference accords published to the PerfuMate community.

Which materials are closest to Geosmin?

Ranked by how many olfactive sub-categories they share with Geosmin, 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.

Geosmin

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
2
Sub-categories under them
4
Impact, out of 10
10
Hours on a blotter
2.8 days
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
1
Constituent breakdown
not on file

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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