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Musk Ketone

CAS 81-14-1  ·  Synthetic  ·  Base note  ·  Nitro musk

Impact

6 of 10

Substantivity

17 days on a blotter

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
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

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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 51st Amendment as you build, including the same molecule arriving from several naturals at once. What that covers, and what it does not.

How much Musk Ketone can go in a perfume (IFRA limit) Check a formula with Musk Ketone in the free IFRA calculator

Work out a 10% dilution of Musk Ketone with the free dilution calculator How to use musks in a perfume formula What is a fixative in perfume?

What can replace Musk Ketone?

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.

  • Nitro Musk (F-TEC)
    carries Sweet musk, Musky powdery, Sugary sweet, Powdery musk. Warm musk; lasts about 2.4x shorter on paper
    86%
  • Nitro Musk (F-TEC) 86% + Traseolide 14%
    carries Sweet musk, Musky powdery, Sugary sweet, Powdery musk. Warm musk; Nitro Musk (F-TEC) brings the Sweet musk side (86%); Traseolide brings the Powdery musk side (14%)
    87%
  • Nitro Musk (F-TEC) 85% + Globanone 15%
    carries Sweet musk, Musky powdery, Sugary sweet, Powdery musk. Warm musk; Nitro Musk (F-TEC) brings the Sweet musk side (85%); Globanone brings the Warm musk side (15%)
    87%
  • Nitro Musk (F-TEC) 87% + Cosmone 13%
    carries Sweet musk, Musky powdery, Sugary sweet, Powdery musk. Warm musk; Nitro Musk (F-TEC) brings the Sweet musk side (87%); Cosmone brings the Warm musk side (13%); lasts about 2.4x shorter on paper
    86%
  • Nitro Musk (F-TEC) 74% + Tonalide 26%
    carries Sweet musk, Musky powdery, Sugary sweet, Powdery musk. Warm musk; Nitro Musk (F-TEC) brings the Sweet musk side (74%); Tonalide brings the Powdery musk side (26%); lasts about 2.2x shorter on paper
    85%

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Which materials are closest to Musk Ketone?

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.

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 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.