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Grey Amber B.Base™ (Moellhausen)

A base — a blend, so no CAS number  ·  Synthetic  ·  Base note  ·  Salty ambergris accord

Impact

7 of 10

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Ambergris 50%Animalic 25%Amber 17%Musk 8%
animalic 42%ambergris 25%salty 17%amber 17%

What does Grey Amber B.Base smell like?

Moellhausen's own amber article describes it as an ambergris-type accord: the cutting animalic and salty notes come directly to the head, while its enveloping ambery notes and the earthy side given by musks find a great harmonization with the heart notes. Built like every BoldBase from fewer than eight elementary components, so it is a building block rather than a finished accord: the house's use for it is to uplift notes inside an amber formulation, salting and animalising an amber or musk base and giving it the mineral, slightly marine lift of grey amber.

animalicsaltyambermuskyearthywarmdiffusivetenacious

Use Grey Amber B.Base in a formula

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What can replace Grey Amber B.Base?

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.

  • Ambergris T Oliffac 51% + Absolute Ambergris 49%
    carries Animalic ambergris, Ambergris animalic. Salty ambergris; amber; Animalic musk; Ambergris T Oliffac brings the Animalic ambergris side (51%); Absolute Ambergris brings the Salty ambergris side (49%)
    64%
  • Ambergris T Oliffac 71% + Ambramone 29%
    carries Animalic ambergris, Ambergris animalic, amber. Salty ambergris; Animalic musk; Ambergris T Oliffac brings the Animalic ambergris side (71%); Ambramone brings the amber side (29%)
    62%
  • Ambergris T Oliffac 45% + Absolute Ambergris 40% + Ambramone 15%
    carries Animalic ambergris, Ambergris animalic. Salty ambergris; amber; Animalic musk; Ambergris T Oliffac brings the Animalic ambergris side (45%); Absolute Ambergris brings the Salty ambergris side (40%); Ambramone brings the amber side (15%)
    66%
  • Absolute Ambergris 45% + Lactoscatone 40% + Ambramone 15%
    carries Ambergris animalic. Animalic ambergris; Salty ambergris; amber; Animalic musk; Absolute Ambergris brings the Salty ambergris side (45%); Lactoscatone brings the Civet animalic side (40%); Ambramone brings the amber side (15%); lasts about 2.2x longer on paper
    64%

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Which materials are closest to Grey Amber B.Base?

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Grey Amber B.Base

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
estimated from family and band
CAS number
not on file
Supplier and trade synonyms
not on file
Constituent breakdown
not on file

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Described in words
every one
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.