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l-Carvone

CAS 6485-40-1  ·  Synthetic  ·  Top note  ·  Minty

Impact

7 of 10

Substantivity

8.0 hours on a blotter

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Herbal 55%Sweet 27%Green 18%
minty 55%sugary 27%herbal 18%

What does l-Carvone smell like?

Sweet spearmint chewing-gum note, warm-minty and slightly green. The defining molecule of spearmint; freshens fougeres and herbal accords, now IFRA-restricted for sensitization.

mintysweetgreenfreshcooling

Use l-Carvone in a formula

What else is l-Carvone called?

(-)-Carvone  ·  Laevo-carvone  ·  Levo-carvone  ·  Spearmint ketone

Restricted under IFRA. This material carries a restriction. PerfuMate checks your formula against the 51st Amendment as you build, including the same molecule arriving from several naturals at once. What that covers, and what it does not.

How much l-Carvone can go in a perfume (IFRA limit) Check a formula with l-Carvone in the free IFRA calculator

Work out a 10% dilution of l-Carvone with the free dilution calculator

What can replace l-Carvone?

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.

  • Peppermint (F-TEC)
    carries Minty herbal, Sugary sweet. Herbal green
    78%
  • Frescolat MGA 40% + Peppermint (F-TEC) 60%
    carries Minty herbal, Herbal green. Sugary sweet; Frescolat MGA brings the Minty herbal side (40%); Peppermint (F-TEC) brings the Minty herbal side (60%)
    82%
  • Peppermint (F-TEC) 55% + Estragole 10% + Frescolat MGA 35%
    carries Minty herbal, Sugary sweet, Herbal green. Peppermint (F-TEC) brings the Minty herbal side (55%); Estragole brings the Anisic herbal side (10%); Frescolat MGA brings the Minty herbal side (35%)
    85%
  • Frescolat MGA 48% + Methyl 4-Methylsalicylate 52%
    carries Minty herbal, Herbal green. Sugary sweet; Frescolat MGA brings the Minty herbal side (48%); Methyl 4-Methylsalicylate brings the Minty herbal side (52%); softer, so use a little more; lasts about 2.2x longer on paper
    80%
  • Peppermint (F-TEC) 86% + Estragole 14%
    carries Minty herbal, Sugary sweet. Herbal green; Peppermint (F-TEC) brings the Minty herbal side (86%); Estragole brings the Anisic herbal side (14%)
    78%

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Which materials are closest to l-Carvone?

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.

l-Carvone

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
3
Sub-categories under them
3
Impact, out of 10
7
Hours on a blotter
8.0 hours
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.