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Madrox™ (Givaudan)

CAS 37514-30-0  ·  Synthetic  ·  Base note  ·  Dry woody amber

Impact

6 of 10

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Woody 55%Amber 27%Ambergris 18%
amberwood 64%tobacco 18%warm 18%

What does Madrox smell like?

Givaudan places it in the woody family with ambery, tobacco and warm facets. It is built for woody, fougere and chypre compositions, where it imparts an interesting ambergris note. In a formula it acts as a main constituent that blends the top notes into the rest of the structure and strengthens the body of the fragrance, so it is a binder as much as an odorant. Tenacity on blotter is three days, and it is stable from base to highly alkaline pH, which is why it survives detergent, shampoo and all-purpose cleaner bases.

woodyamberwarmdrytenacious

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What else is Madrox called?

1-Methyl-1-methoxycyclododecane

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What can replace Madrox?

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.

  • Ambrox DL
    carries Amberwood woody, Warm ambergris, Warm amber. Tobacco amber
    71%
  • Ambrox DL 46% + Ambrofix 54%
    carries Warm ambergris, Warm amber. Amberwood woody; Tobacco amber; Ambrox DL brings the Warm amber side (46%); Ambrofix brings the Warm ambergris side (54%)
    73%
  • Ambrox DL 53% + Tobacarol 47%
    carries Warm amber. Amberwood woody; Tobacco amber; Warm ambergris; Ambrox DL brings the Warm amber side (53%); Tobacarol brings the Tobacco amber side (47%)
    73%
  • Ambrox DL 70% + Cedar Ketol 30%
    carries Amberwood woody, Warm ambergris, Warm amber. Tobacco amber; Ambrox DL brings the Warm amber side (70%); Cedar Ketol brings the Cedar woody side (30%)
    70%
  • Ambrox DL 40% + Tobacarol 25% + Ambrofix 35%
    carries Warm ambergris, Warm amber. Amberwood woody; Tobacco amber; Ambrox DL brings the Warm amber side (40%); Tobacarol brings the Tobacco amber side (25%); Ambrofix brings the Warm ambergris side (35%)
    74%

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Which materials are closest to Madrox?

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.

Madrox

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
3
Sub-categories under them
3
Impact, out of 10
6
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.