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Musk Xylene

CAS 81-15-2  ·  Synthetic  ·  Base note  ·  Nitro musk

Impact

5 of 10

Substantivity

17 days on a blotter

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Musk 50%Sweet 25%Woody 17%Aldehydic 8%
clean 36%sugary 25%sweet 23%dry 17%

What does Musk Xylene smell like?

Dry, clean, slightly sweet nitro musk that was the cheap workhorse of soap perfumery for a century. Effectively banned (REACH/IFRA prohibitions); included for historical formula reference.

muskycleandrysweetsoapy

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What else is Musk Xylene called?

Musk xylol  ·  2,4,6-Trinitro-1,3-dimethyl-5-tert-butylbenzene

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

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What can replace Musk Xylene?

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.

  • Sublimolide
    carries Clean musk, Sugary sweet, Sweet musk, Warm musk. Dry woody; Soapy aldehydic; Clean aldehydic
    76%
  • Sublimolide 45% + Guaiol 30% + X-Musk (F-TEC) 25%
    carries Clean musk, Sugary sweet, Dry woody, Sweet musk. Clean aldehydic; Sublimolide brings the Sweet musk side (45%); Guaiol brings the Dry woody side (30%); X-Musk (F-TEC) brings the Clean musk side (25%)
    90%
  • Sublimolide 68% + Guaiol 32%
    carries Clean musk, Sugary sweet, Dry woody, Sweet musk. Soapy aldehydic; Clean aldehydic; Sublimolide brings the Sweet musk side (68%); Guaiol brings the Dry woody side (32%)
    84%
  • Sublimolide 45% + Habanolide 30% + Guaiol 25%
    carries Clean musk, Sugary sweet, Dry woody, Sweet musk. Soapy aldehydic; Sublimolide brings the Sweet musk side (45%); Habanolide brings the Clean musk side (30%); Guaiol brings the Dry woody side (25%)
    87%
  • Sublimolide 60% + Timbersilk 40%
    carries Clean musk, Sugary sweet, Sweet musk, Warm musk. Dry woody; Soapy aldehydic; Clean aldehydic; Sublimolide brings the Sweet musk side (60%); Timbersilk brings the Dry woody side (40%)
    82%

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Which materials are closest to Musk Xylene?

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 Xylene

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
4
Sub-categories under them
4
Impact, out of 10
5
Hours on a blotter
17 days
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
2
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.