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Hexanoic Acid

CAS 142-62-1  ·  Synthetic  ·  Heart note  ·  Sweaty

Impact

6 of 10

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Animalic 55%Aldehydic 27%Fruity 18%
sweaty 55%fatty 27%dried 18%

What does Hexanoic Acid smell like?

Sharp fatty-acid odor, cheesy and sweat-like. Trace ingredient for natural animalic, dairy and fruit nuances.

sweatyfattyanimalicfruity

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What else is Hexanoic Acid called?

Caproic acid

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What can replace Hexanoic Acid?

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.

  • Decanoic Acid
    carries Sweaty animalic, Fatty aldehydic. Dried fruity; lasts about 2.5x longer on paper
    64%
  • Octanoic Acid 61% + Copulins blend 39%
    carries Sweaty animalic, Fatty aldehydic. Dried fruity; Octanoic Acid brings the Fatty aldehydic side (61%); Copulins blend brings the Sweaty animalic side (39%); lasts about 2.5x shorter on paper
    74%
  • Octanoic Acid 40% + Copulins blend 40% + Datilat 20%
    carries Sweaty animalic. Fatty aldehydic; Dried fruity; Octanoic Acid brings the Fatty aldehydic side (40%); Copulins blend brings the Sweaty animalic side (40%); Datilat brings the Dried fruity side (20%); lasts about 2.5x shorter on paper
    78%
  • Copulins blend 63% + Datilat 37%
    carries Sweaty animalic, Dried fruity. Fatty aldehydic; Copulins blend brings the Sweaty animalic side (63%); Datilat brings the Dried fruity side (37%)
    73%
  • Decanoic Acid 50% + Copulins blend 35% + Datilat 15%
    carries Sweaty animalic. Fatty aldehydic; Dried fruity; Decanoic Acid brings the Fatty aldehydic side (50%); Copulins blend brings the Sweaty animalic side (35%); Datilat brings the Dried fruity side (15%)
    77%

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Which materials are closest to Hexanoic Acid?

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.

Hexanoic Acid

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
3
Sub-categories under them
3
Impact, out of 10
6
Hours on a blotter
estimated from family and band
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
1
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.