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Nootkatone

CAS 4674-50-4  ·  Synthetic  ·  Heart note  ·  Bitter citrus

Impact

8 of 10

Substantivity

9.8 days on a blotter

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Citrus 67%Woody 33%
grapefruit-pink 44%dry 33%peel 22%

What does Nootkatone smell like?

Bitter, woody grapefruit-peel sesquiterpene ketone with dry, slightly rhubarb-like facets and remarkable tenacity for a citrus note. Anchors grapefruit accords into the heart and adds natural bitterness to citrus colognes.

grapefruitcitruswoodydrytenacious

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What else is Nootkatone called?

Grapefruit Ketone  ·  4,4a-Dimethyl-6-isopropenyl-octahydronaphthalenone

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

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Published formulas using Nootkatone

Published formulas: PerfuMate's house accords and formulas members chose to publish. The figure is its share of the concentrate.

What can replace Nootkatone?

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.

  • Grapefruit Mercaptan 52% + Valencene 48%
    carries Pink grapefruit citrus. Dry woody; Peel citrus; Grapefruit Mercaptan brings the Pink grapefruit citrus side (52%); Valencene brings the Sweet orange citrus side (48%)
    62%
  • Grapefruit Mercaptan 50% + Teak 30% + Dimethyl Anthranilate 20%
    carries Pink grapefruit citrus. Dry woody; Peel citrus; Grapefruit Mercaptan brings the Pink grapefruit citrus side (50%); Teak brings the Dry woody side (30%); Dimethyl Anthranilate brings the Peel citrus side (20%)
    64%
  • Grapefruit Mercaptan 54% + Vertenex 46% closer in spirit than in chemistry
    carries Pink grapefruit citrus. Dry woody; Peel citrus; Grapefruit Mercaptan brings the Pink grapefruit citrus side (54%); Vertenex brings the Dry woody side (46%); lasts about 3.5x shorter on paper
    59%
  • Grapefruit Mercaptan 63% + Dimethyl Anthranilate 37% closer in spirit than in chemistry
    carries Pink grapefruit citrus, Peel citrus. Dry woody; Grapefruit Mercaptan brings the Pink grapefruit citrus side (63%); Dimethyl Anthranilate brings the Peel citrus side (37%); lasts about 2.8x shorter on paper
    59%
  • Grapefruit Mercaptan 55% + Teak 45% closer in spirit than in chemistry
    carries Pink grapefruit citrus. Dry woody; Peel citrus; Grapefruit Mercaptan brings the Pink grapefruit citrus side (55%); Teak brings the Dry woody side (45%)
    59%

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Which materials are closest to Nootkatone?

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How much does PerfuMate know about one material?

Counted from the file the app ships, the moment this page was built.

Nootkatone

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
2
Sub-categories under them
3
Impact, out of 10
8
Hours on a blotter
9.8 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.