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Muscone

CAS 541-91-3  ·  Synthetic  ·  Base note  ·  Animalic musk

Impact

6 of 10

Substantivity

14 days on a blotter

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
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

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What else is Muscone called?

3-Methylcyclopentadecanone  ·  Methylexaltone  ·  Muscone (racemic)

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What can replace Muscone?

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.

  • (R)-(-)-Muscone
    carries Animalic musk, Musky animalic, Musky powdery, Warm musk. Sugary sweet; Sweet musk
    85%
  • Globanone 23% + (R)-(-)-Muscone 77%
    carries Animalic musk, Musky animalic, Musky powdery, Warm musk. Sugary sweet; Sweet musk; Globanone brings the Warm musk side (23%); (R)-(-)-Muscone brings the Animalic musk side (77%)
    89%
  • (R)-(-)-Muscone 85% + Musk Ketone 15%
    carries Animalic musk, Musky animalic, Musky powdery, Warm musk. Sugary sweet; Sweet musk; (R)-(-)-Muscone brings the Animalic musk side (85%); Musk Ketone brings the Sweet musk side (15%)
    89%
  • (R)-(-)-Muscone 86% + Tonalide 14%
    carries Animalic musk, Musky animalic, Musky powdery, Warm musk. Sugary sweet; Sweet musk; (R)-(-)-Muscone brings the Animalic musk side (86%); Tonalide brings the Powdery musk side (14%)
    89%
  • Globanone
    carries Animalic musk, Musky animalic, Musky powdery, Warm musk. Sweet musk
    84%

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Which materials are closest to Muscone?

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.

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 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.