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Isobutyl Salicylate

CAS 87-19-4  ·  Synthetic  ·  Heart note  ·  Herbal green

Impact

4 of 10

Substantivity

2.0 days on a blotter

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Green 55%Herbal 27%Floral 18%
herbal 94%white 6%

What does Isobutyl Salicylate smell like?

Clover-herbal salicylate with a soft orchid-floral body, close to amyl salicylate but drier and a touch harsher. Fills the isobutyl gap in fougeres and green florals, giving white flowers a sunlit meadow lift.

greenherbalfloraldry

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What else is Isobutyl Salicylate called?

Isobutyl 2-hydroxybenzoate  ·  2-Methylpropyl 2-hydroxybenzoate  ·  Isobutyl o-hydroxybenzoate  ·  Salicylic acid isobutyl ester

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What can replace Isobutyl Salicylate?

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.

  • Isopropyl Salicylate
    carries Herbal green, Aromatic herbal, Leafy green, Green floral. White floral; lasts about 3.4x shorter on paper
    82%
  • Isoamyl Salicylate
    carries Herbal green, Aromatic herbal, Leafy green, Green floral. White floral; lasts about 2.6x longer on paper
    81%
  • Isopropyl Salicylate 57% + Black Tea Base 43%
    carries Herbal green, Aromatic herbal, Leafy green, Green floral. White floral; Isopropyl Salicylate brings the Leafy green side (57%); Black Tea Base brings the Leafy green side (43%); lasts about 3.1x shorter on paper
    83%
  • Isopropyl Salicylate 53% + Cantryl 47%
    carries Herbal green, Aromatic herbal, Leafy green, Green floral. White floral; Isopropyl Salicylate brings the Leafy green side (53%); Cantryl brings the Herbal green side (47%)
    83%
  • Isopropyl Salicylate 54% + Terpinyl Propionate 46%
    carries Herbal green, Aromatic herbal, Leafy green, Green floral. White floral; Isopropyl Salicylate brings the Leafy green side (54%); Terpinyl Propionate brings the Herbal green side (46%); lasts about 2.1x shorter on paper
    83%

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Which materials are closest to Isobutyl Salicylate?

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.

Isobutyl Salicylate

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
3
Sub-categories under them
2
Impact, out of 10
4
Hours on a blotter
2.0 days
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
4
Constituent breakdown
not on file

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Described in words
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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.