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Methyl Anisate

CAS 121-98-2  ·  Synthetic  ·  Heart note  ·  Anisic

Impact

5 of 10

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Herbal 55%Sweet 27%Floral 18%
anisic 42%aromatic 18%sugary 18%heliotrope 12%balsamic 9%

What does Methyl Anisate smell like?

Herbal anise sweetness with a hawthorn-balsamic body and a soft powdery tail. The missing partner to anisyl acetate and anisyl alcohol, useful wherever a hawthorn or heliotrope accord needs anisic backbone without anisaldehyde's punch.

herbalanisicsweetbalsamicfloral

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What else is Methyl Anisate called?

Methyl para-anisate  ·  Methyl p-anisate  ·  Methyl 4-methoxybenzoate  ·  p-Anisic acid methyl ester

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What can replace Methyl Anisate?

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.

  • Ethyl Anisate
    carries Anisic herbal, Aromatic herbal, Sugary sweet, Heliotrope floral. Balsamic sweet; Powdery floral
    70%
  • Ethyl Anisate 71% + Estragole 29%
    carries Anisic herbal, Aromatic herbal, Sugary sweet. Heliotrope floral; Balsamic sweet; Powdery floral; Ethyl Anisate brings the Anisic herbal side (71%); Estragole brings the Anisic herbal side (29%)
    74%
  • Ethyl Anisate 67% + Toscanol 33%
    carries Anisic herbal, Aromatic herbal, Sugary sweet. Heliotrope floral; Balsamic sweet; Powdery floral; Ethyl Anisate brings the Anisic herbal side (67%); Toscanol brings the Anisic herbal side (33%)
    73%
  • Ethyl Anisate 75% + Dihydroanethole 25%
    carries Anisic herbal, Aromatic herbal, Sugary sweet. Heliotrope floral; Balsamic sweet; Powdery floral; Ethyl Anisate brings the Anisic herbal side (75%); Dihydroanethole brings the Anisic herbal side (25%)
    72%
  • Ethyl Anisate 75% + trans-Anethole 25%
    carries Anisic herbal, Aromatic herbal, Sugary sweet. Heliotrope floral; Balsamic sweet; Powdery floral; Ethyl Anisate brings the Anisic herbal side (75%); trans-Anethole brings the Anisic herbal side (25%)
    72%

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Which materials are closest to Methyl Anisate?

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Methyl Anisate

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
3
Sub-categories under them
5
Impact, out of 10
5
Hours on a blotter
estimated from family and band
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.