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Isovaleric Acid

CAS 503-74-2  ·  Synthetic  ·  Heart note  ·  Sweaty

Impact

8 of 10

Working dilution

1% our default at this strength
Animalic 55%Leather 27%Fruity 18%
sweaty 55%animalic 27%jammy 18%

What does Isovaleric Acid smell like?

Pungent sweaty-cheesy acid used in trace amounts for realism in animalic, leather and human-skin effects. Essential in minute doses for natural fruit and cheese nuances.

sweatyanimalicleatheryfruityskin-like

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What else is Isovaleric Acid called?

3-Methylbutanoic acid

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What can replace Isovaleric 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.

  • Hyraceum Signature Absolute
    carries Sweaty animalic, Animalic leather, Musky animalic. Jammy fruity; lasts about 3.3x longer on paper
    68%
  • Hyraceum Signature Absolute 73% + p-Cresyl Isobutyrate 28%
    carries Sweaty animalic, Animalic leather, Musky animalic. Jammy fruity; Hyraceum Signature Absolute brings the Musky animalic side (72%); p-Cresyl Isobutyrate brings the Jammy fruity side (28%); lasts about 2.4x longer on paper
    76%
  • Copulins blend 41% + Costus Olifac IFF 59%
    carries Sweaty animalic, Musky animalic. Animalic leather; Jammy fruity; Copulins blend brings the Sweaty animalic side (41%); Costus Olifac IFF brings the Musky animalic side (59%)
    74%
  • Hyraceum Signature Absolute 73% + Copulins blend 27%
    carries Sweaty animalic, Animalic leather, Musky animalic. Jammy fruity; Hyraceum Signature Absolute brings the Musky animalic side (73%); Copulins blend brings the Sweaty animalic side (27%); lasts about 2.6x longer on paper
    72%
  • Hyraceum Signature Absolute 71% + Strawberriff 29%
    carries Sweaty animalic, Animalic leather, Musky animalic. Jammy fruity; Hyraceum Signature Absolute brings the Musky animalic side (71%); Strawberriff brings the Red fruit fruity side (29%); lasts about 2.4x longer on paper
    71%

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Which materials are closest to Isovaleric 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.

Isovaleric Acid

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
3
Sub-categories under them
3
Impact, out of 10
8
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.