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Musk Ketone

CAS 81-14-1  ·  Synthetic  ·  Base note
Musk 55%Powdery 27%Sweet 18%
powdery 42%sweet 40%sugary 18%

What does Musk Ketone smell like?

Classic nitro musk: sweet, powdery, warm musk with a vintage cosmetic character, historically the great fixative-exalter of early 20th-century perfumery. Heavily restricted today; kept mainly for reference and restoration work, with macrocyclics like Ambrettolide as modern alternatives.

muskypowderysweetwarmtenacious

Impact

6 of 10

Substantivity

17 days on a blotter

Typical dilution

10% in solvent

Subfamily

Nitro musk

Which families does Musk Ketone belong to?

Musk · 55%

sweet, powdery, warm

Powdery · 27%

musky, sweet

Sweet · 18%

sugary

What else is Musk Ketone called?

4-tert-Butyl-2,6-dimethyl-3,5-dinitroacetophenone

Restricted under IFRA. This material carries a restriction. PerfuMate checks your formula against the current standard as you build, including the same molecule arriving from several naturals at once.

Which materials are closest to Musk Ketone?

Ranked by how many olfactive sub-categories they share with Musk Ketone, 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.

Musk Ketone

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
3
Sub-categories under them
3
Impact, out of 10
6
Hours on a blotter
17 days
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
1
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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