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Milk Lactone™ (Bedoukian Research)

Catalog source: Fraterworks

CAS 72881-27-7 · Synthetic · Base note · Milky creamy

Gourmand 50%Green 25%Fruity 17%Floral 8%

milky 33%creamy 33%fresh 25%rose 8%

What does Milk Lactone smell like?

Powerful milky-creamy material with green peach-skin fruitiness, floral rose nuances and possible waxy-cheesy edges. Despite the trade name it is a decenoic acid, not a true lactone, and it is not Milk Lactone Super or the delta-dodecalactone mixture sold under similar names.

milkycreamygreenpeach skinrosewaxy

Impact

7 of 10 (estimate)

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench

What else is Milk Lactone called?

Cocoa Lactone · (E)-dec-2-enoic acid · (E)-2-Decenoic acid

What can replace Milk Lactone?

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.

delta-Dodecalactone 78% + Geranyl Isobutyrate 22% closer in spirit than in chemistry

carries Milky gourmand, Peach fruity, Rose floral. Fresh green; Creamy gourmand; delta-Dodecalactone brings the Milky gourmand side (78%); Geranyl Isobutyrate brings the Rose floral side (22%)

59%
Lactone Storm 59% + Geranyl Acetone 42% closer in spirit than in chemistry

carries Milky gourmand, Peach fruity, Rose floral. Fresh green; Creamy gourmand; Lactone Storm brings the Peach fruity side (58%); Geranyl Acetone brings the Rose floral side (42%)

59%
delta-Dodecalactone 75% + Phenylethyl Isovalerate 25% closer in spirit than in chemistry

carries Milky gourmand, Peach fruity, Rose floral. Fresh green; Creamy gourmand; delta-Dodecalactone brings the Milky gourmand side (75%); Phenylethyl Isovalerate brings the Rose floral side (25%)

57%
delta-Dodecalactone closer in spirit than in chemistry

carries Milky gourmand, Peach fruity. Fresh green; Creamy gourmand; Rose floral

52%
delta-Dodecalactone 69% + Geranyl Acetone 31% closer in spirit than in chemistry

carries Milky gourmand, Peach fruity, Rose floral. Fresh green; Creamy gourmand; delta-Dodecalactone brings the Milky gourmand side (69%); Geranyl Acetone brings the Rose floral side (31%)

56%

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Which materials are closest to Milk Lactone?

Ranked by shared olfactive sub-categories, not alphabetically.

delta-Decalactone delta-Dodecalactone epsilon-Decalactone 6-Methylcoumarin Acetoin Acetoin Acetate Butyl Butyryl Lactate Butyric Acid Chocolate (F-TEC)Cocoa Butter (F-TEC)Coconut (F-TEC)Coffee (F-TEC)

How much does PerfuMate know about one material?

Counted from the file the app ships, the moment this page was built.

Milk Lactone

A written odor description: yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order: 4
Sub-categories under them: 4
Impact, out of 10: 7 (estimate)
Hours on a blotter: estimated from family and band
CAS number: yes
Supplier and trade synonyms: 3
Constituent breakdown: not on file

All 2,095 materials

Described in words: every one
Impact rating out of 10: every one
Classified into an olfactive family: 2,056
Carrying several families, in order: 1,965
Sub-category assignments: 9,466 across 237 pairs
A top / heart / base band: 2,041
Hours on a blotter: 831
CAS number: 1,548
Supplier synonyms: 5,457 names
Constituent breakdowns: 708

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 547 materials carrying no CAS number the 238 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.

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