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Geranyl Nitrile

CAS 5146-66-7  ·  Synthetic  ·  Top note  ·  Bitter citrus

Impact

7 of 10

Substantivity

2.3 days on a blotter

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Citrus 50%Green 25%Aldehydic 17%Floral 8%
lemon 50%leafy 25%metallic 17%rose 8%

What does Geranyl Nitrile smell like?

Harsh but effective lemon-citrus nitrile with green-metallic and slightly floral-geranium facets. Formerly a functional-perfumery citral substitute; now prohibited by IFRA, kept here mainly for legacy formula reference.

citruslemongreenmetallicfloral

Use Geranyl Nitrile in a formula

What else is Geranyl Nitrile called?

Citralva  ·  Geranonitrile  ·  3,7-Dimethyl-2,6-octadienenitrile

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.

How much Geranyl Nitrile can go in a perfume (IFRA limit) Check a formula with Geranyl Nitrile in the free IFRA calculator

Work out a 10% dilution of Geranyl Nitrile with the free dilution calculator

What can replace Geranyl Nitrile?

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.

  • Citronellal
    carries Lemon citrus, Leafy green, Zesty citrus, Metallic aldehydic. Lasts about 3.5x shorter on paper
    90%
  • Citronellal 88% + Lemon Essential Oil Distilled 12%
    carries Lemon citrus, Leafy green, Zesty citrus, Metallic aldehydic. Citronellal brings the Lemon citrus side (88%); Lemon Essential Oil Distilled brings the Lemon citrus side (12%); a natural standing in for a molecule: it brings more than the note you are replacing; lasts about 3.9x shorter on paper
    81%
  • Geranial 50% + Nerol Oxide 50%
    carries Lemon citrus, Leafy green, Zesty citrus, Rose floral. Metallic aldehydic; Geranial brings the Lemon citrus side (50%); Nerol Oxide brings the Leafy green side (50%); lasts about 14x shorter on paper
    80%
  • Geranial 50% + Rose Oxide 50%
    carries Lemon citrus, Zesty citrus, Rose floral. Leafy green; Metallic aldehydic; Geranial brings the Lemon citrus side (50%); Rose Oxide brings the Rose floral side (50%); lasts about 23x shorter on paper
    77%
  • Geranial 50% + Dihydrorose Oxide 50%
    carries Lemon citrus, Zesty citrus, Rose floral. Leafy green; Metallic aldehydic; Geranial brings the Lemon citrus side (50%); Dihydrorose Oxide brings the Rose floral side (50%); lasts about 14x shorter on paper
    77%

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Which materials are closest to Geranyl Nitrile?

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.

Geranyl Nitrile

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
4
Sub-categories under them
4
Impact, out of 10
7
Hours on a blotter
2.3 days
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.