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Hexadecanolide

CAS 109-29-5  ·  Synthetic  ·  Base note  ·  Powdery musk

Impact

3 of 10

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Musk 55%Aldehydic 27%Powdery 18%
powdery 58%waxy 42%

What does Hexadecanolide smell like?

Soft, discreet, waxy-powdery macrocyclic musk (the saturated analog of ambrettolide) with a gentle, clean skin-like warmth. Useful as a quiet fixative filler in musk bases where louder materials would dominate.

muskywaxypowderycleanskin-like

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What else is Hexadecanolide called?

Dihydroambrettolide  ·  Oxacycloheptadecan-2-one  ·  16-Hexadecanolide  ·  Onestolide

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What can replace Hexadecanolide?

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.

  • Exaltolide
    carries Powdery musk, Waxy aldehydic, Musky powdery, Clean musk. Skin musk
    78%
  • Exaltolide 85% + Musk Xylol REP 15%
    carries Powdery musk, Musky powdery, Clean musk, Powdery aldehydic. Waxy aldehydic; Skin musk; Exaltolide brings the Powdery musk side (85%); Musk Xylol REP brings the Clean musk side (15%)
    81%
  • Exaltolide 80% + Sinfonide 20%
    carries Powdery musk, Musky powdery, Clean musk. Waxy aldehydic; Skin musk; Powdery aldehydic; Exaltolide brings the Powdery musk side (80%); Sinfonide brings the Powdery musk side (20%)
    81%
  • Exaltolide 87% + Egyptian Musk Base 13%
    carries Powdery musk, Waxy aldehydic, Musky powdery, Clean musk. Skin musk; Exaltolide brings the Powdery musk side (87%); Egyptian Musk Base brings the Skin musk side (13%)
    78%
  • Exaltolide 70% + Musk Xylol REP 10% + Sinfonide 20%
    carries Powdery musk, Musky powdery, Clean musk. Waxy aldehydic; Skin musk; Powdery aldehydic; Exaltolide brings the Powdery musk side (70%); Musk Xylol REP brings the Clean musk side (10%); Sinfonide brings the Powdery musk side (20%)
    82%

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Which materials are closest to Hexadecanolide?

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.

Hexadecanolide

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
3
Sub-categories under them
2
Impact, out of 10
3
Hours on a blotter
estimated from family and band
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
4
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.