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Isobutyl Benzoate

CAS 120-50-3  ·  Synthetic  ·  Heart note  ·  Balsamic

Impact

4 of 10

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Resinous 50%Fruity 25%Powdery 17%Sweet 8%
balsamic 58%jammy 25%sweet 17%

What does Isobutyl Benzoate smell like?

Sweet fruity balsam with a musty-powdery middle; lighter and more volatile than isoamyl benzoate. A cheap volume material for ylang and tuberose reconstructions, where it adds sweet balsamic bulk and helps solubilize crystalline florals.

sweetfruitypowderybalsamic

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What else is Isobutyl Benzoate called?

2-Methylpropyl benzoate  ·  Benzoic acid isobutyl ester

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What can replace Isobutyl 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.

  • 3-Phenylpropyl Acetate
    carries Balsamic resinous, Balsamic sweet. Jammy fruity; Sweet powdery
    62%
  • Ethyl Benzoate 48% + Phenyl Salicylate 52%
    carries Balsamic resinous, Jammy fruity, Balsamic sweet. Sweet powdery; Ethyl Benzoate brings the Jammy fruity side (48%); Phenyl Salicylate brings the Balsamic resinous side (52%); lasts about 2.1x longer on paper
    69%
  • Ethyl Benzoate 45% + Tolu Absolute Replacer 50% 55%
    carries Balsamic resinous, Jammy fruity, Balsamic sweet. Sweet powdery; Ethyl Benzoate brings the Jammy fruity side (45%); Tolu Absolute Replacer 50% brings the Balsamic resinous side (55%)
    69%
  • Ethyl Benzoate 58% + Sakura Salicylate 42%
    carries Balsamic resinous, Jammy fruity. Sweet powdery; Balsamic sweet; Ethyl Benzoate brings the Jammy fruity side (58%); Sakura Salicylate brings the White floral side (42%); lasts about 4.4x shorter on paper
    69%
  • Ethyl Benzoate 50% + Cinnamyl Cinnamate 50%
    carries Balsamic resinous, Jammy fruity, Balsamic sweet. Sweet powdery; Ethyl Benzoate brings the Jammy fruity side (50%); Cinnamyl Cinnamate brings the Balsamic resinous side (50%)
    69%

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Which materials are closest to Isobutyl Benzoate?

Ranked by shared olfactive sub-categories, not alphabetically.

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Counted from the file the app ships, the moment this page was built.

Isobutyl Benzoate

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