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Muscenone™ (dsm-firmenich)

CAS 82356-51-2  ·  Synthetic  ·  Base note  ·  Animalic musk

Impact

7 of 10

Substantivity

14 days on a blotter

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Musk 55%Animalic 27%Woody 18%
animalic 75%warm 15%velvety 10%

What does Muscenone smell like?

Firmenich's intensified muscone analog: powerfully diffusive, warm, slightly dry-woody animalic musk with more radiance than muscone itself. A small dose brings vibrating muskiness and lift to a whole base.

muskyanimalicwoodywarmdiffusivedry

Use Muscenone in a formula

What else is Muscenone called?

3-Methyl-5-cyclopentadecen-1-one  ·  Muscenone Delta  ·  Muskeynone

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Published formulas using Muscenone

Published formulas: PerfuMate's house accords and formulas members chose to publish. The figure is its share of the concentrate.

What can replace Muscenone?

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.

  • carries Animalic musk, Musky animalic, Dry woody. Warm musk; Velvety musk; lasts about 2.1x longer on paper
    74%
  • carries Animalic musk, Musky animalic, Dry woody. Warm musk; Velvety musk; Muscarome brings the Animalic musk side (63%); Cashmere Musk (F-TEC) brings the Warm musk side (37%)
    84%
  • Muscarome 61% + Velvione 39%
    carries Animalic musk, Musky animalic, Dry woody. Warm musk; Velvety musk; Muscarome brings the Animalic musk side (61%); Velvione brings the Warm musk side (39%)
    83%
  • carries Animalic musk, Musky animalic, Dry woody. Warm musk; Velvety musk; Muscarome brings the Animalic musk side (55%); Cashmere Musk (F-TEC) brings the Warm musk side (20%); Velvione brings the Warm musk side (25%)
    85%
  • Muscarome 61% + Globanone 39%
    carries Animalic musk, Musky animalic, Dry woody. Warm musk; Velvety musk; Muscarome brings the Animalic musk side (61%); Globanone brings the Warm musk side (39%)
    80%

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Which materials are closest to Muscenone?

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.

Muscenone

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
14 days
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
3
Constituent breakdown
not on file

All 2,211 materials

Described in words
every one
Impact rating out of 10
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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.