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Muscone

CAS 541-91-3  ·  Synthetic  ·  Base note
Musk 50%Animalic 25%Powdery 17%Sweet 8%
animalic 50%powdery 25%warm 17%sugary 8%

What does Muscone smell like?

The key odorant of natural Tonkin musk: warm, sweet, powdery-animalic musk of great elegance and skin-like sensuality. Used at low levels to give authentic animal warmth to musk accords and reconstitutions of deer musk.

muskyanimalicpowderysweetskin-likewarm

Impact

6 of 10

Substantivity

14 days on a blotter

Typical dilution

10% in solvent

Subfamily

Animalic musk

Which families does Muscone belong to?

Musk · 50%

animalic, warm, powdery, sweet

Animalic · 25%

musky

Powdery · 17%

musky

Sweet · 8%

sugary

What else is Muscone called?

3-Methylcyclopentadecanone  ·  Methylexaltone  ·  Muscone (racemic)

Which materials are closest to Muscone?

Ranked by how many olfactive sub-categories they share with Muscone, not alphabetically.

How much does PerfuMate know about one material?

What this page carries, beside what the whole catalog carries. Every figure on the right is counted from the file the app ships, at the moment this page was built, so it cannot drift from the product the way a sentence somebody typed would.

Muscone

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
4
Sub-categories under them
4
Impact, out of 10
6
Hours on a blotter
14 days
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
3
Constituent breakdown
not on file

All 1,581 materials

Described in words
every one
Impact rating out of 10
every one
Classified into an olfactive family
1,547
Carrying several families, in order
1,465
Sub-category assignments
7,405 across 214 pairs
A top / heart / base band
1,532
Hours on a blotter
441
CAS number
1,153
Supplier synonyms
4,308 names
Constituent breakdowns
588

And the limits, because they decide how far the rest can be trusted. 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 428 materials carrying no CAS number the 127 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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