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Geranyl Benzoate

CAS 94-48-4  ·  Synthetic  ·  Base note  ·  Balsamic

Impact

2 of 10

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Resinous 50%Sweet 25%Amber 17%Floral 8%
balsamic 78%sweet 9%ylang 6%warm 5%rose 3%

What does Geranyl Benzoate smell like?

Heavy balsamic ester, sweet and ambery with a faint ylang-rose ghost of the geraniol it carries. Almost silent on its own; used as a low-cost tenacity donor that drags rose and ylang accords into the drydown without adding character.

balsamicsweetamberylangrosytenacious

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What else is Geranyl Benzoate called?

trans-3,7-Dimethyl-2,6-octadien-1-yl benzoate  ·  Geranyl benzenecarboxylate  ·  Geraniol benzoate

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What can replace Geranyl Benzoate?

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.

  • Cinnamyl Cinnamate
    carries Balsamic resinous, Balsamic sweet, Benzoin resinous, Sweet amber. Ylang floral; Warm amber; Rose floral
    82%
  • Cinnamyl Cinnamate 87% + Amber (F-TEC) 13%
    carries Balsamic resinous, Balsamic sweet, Benzoin resinous, Sweet amber. Ylang floral; Warm amber; Rose floral; Cinnamyl Cinnamate brings the Balsamic resinous side (87%); Amber (F-TEC) brings the Warm amber side (13%)
    83%
  • Isoamyl Cinnamate
    carries Balsamic resinous, Balsamic sweet, Benzoin resinous, Sweet amber. Ylang floral; Rose floral
    76%
  • Amber (F-TEC) 54% + Benzoic Acid 46%
    carries Balsamic resinous, Balsamic sweet, Benzoin resinous, Sweet amber. Ylang floral; Balsamic amber; Rose floral; Amber (F-TEC) brings the Warm amber side (54%); Benzoic Acid brings the Balsamic resinous side (46%); louder, so use a little less
    77%
  • Cinnamyl Cinnamate 84% + Sclareol 17%
    carries Balsamic resinous, Balsamic sweet, Benzoin resinous, Sweet amber. Ylang floral; Warm amber; Rose floral; Cinnamyl Cinnamate brings the Balsamic resinous side (84%); Sclareol brings the Warm amber side (16%); a natural standing in for a molecule: it brings more than the note you are replacing
    76%

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Which materials are closest to Geranyl Benzoate?

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Geranyl Benzoate

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
4
Sub-categories under them
5
Impact, out of 10
2
Hours on a blotter
estimated from family and band
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.