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l-Linalool

CAS 126-91-0  ·  Synthetic  ·  Top note  ·  Green floral

Impact

6 of 10

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Floral 50%Herbal 25%Woody 17%Green 8%
muguet 33%lavender 17%lavender 17%dry 17%aromatic 17%

What does l-Linalool smell like?

The laevo half of linalool, and the one that smells of lavender rather than of coriander: cooler, woodier and drier than the racemate, with the soft floral sweetness pulled back and a cleaner herbaceous edge left in its place. It is what carries true lavender, where it runs a quarter to nearly half the oil, and ho wood, where it is almost the whole of it. Reach for it when ordinary linalool reads too sweet under a fougere or a lavender accord. The dextro isomer is the other material entirely: warm, herbaceous, the coriander one.

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Use l-Linalool in a formula

What else is l-Linalool called?

(R)-(-)-Linalool  ·  (-)-Linalool  ·  levo-Linalool  ·  laevo-Linalool  ·  L-Linalool

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

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What can replace l-Linalool?

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.

  • Lavender (F-TEC)
    carries Lavender floral, Lavender herbal, Dry woody, Aromatic herbal. Muguet floral; Leafy green
    67%
  • Lavender (F-TEC) 53% + Glycolierral 47%
    carries Lavender floral, Dry woody, Leafy green. Muguet floral; Lavender herbal; Aromatic herbal; Lavender (F-TEC) brings the Lavender floral side (53%); Glycolierral brings the Leafy green side (47%)
    79%
  • 2-Cyclohexylethanol 60% + Lavandin Heart France 40%
    carries Muguet floral, Lavender floral, Lavender herbal, Dry woody. 2-Cyclohexylethanol brings the Muguet floral side (60%); Lavandin Heart France brings the Lavender herbal side (40%)
    79%
  • Glycolierral 45% + Lavandin Heart France 55%
    carries Lavender floral, Lavender herbal, Aromatic herbal, Leafy green. Muguet floral; Dry woody; Glycolierral brings the Leafy green side (45%); Lavandin Heart France brings the Lavender herbal side (55%)
    79%
  • Lavender (F-TEC) 38% + 2-Cyclohexylethanol 62%
    carries Muguet floral, Lavender floral, Dry woody, Leafy green. Lavender herbal; Aromatic herbal; Lavender (F-TEC) brings the Lavender floral side (38%); 2-Cyclohexylethanol brings the Muguet floral side (62%)
    78%

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Which materials are closest to l-Linalool?

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-Linalool

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
4
Sub-categories under them
5
Impact, out of 10
6
Hours on a blotter
estimated from family and band
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
5
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.