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Oakmoss absolute

CAS 9000-50-4  ·  Natural  ·  Base note  ·  Foliage

Impact

8 of 10

Substantivity

17 days on a blotter

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Earthy 50%Leather 25%Woody 17%Green 8%
mossy 92%animalic 8%

What does Oakmoss absolute smell like?

Evernia prunastri lichen absolute: profound forest-floor odor of damp earth, bark, seashore and ink with leathery-phenolic depth; the irreplaceable foundation of the chypre and fougere families. Strictly IFRA-restricted for atranol/chloroatranol - modern low-atranol qualities exist and should be specified.

mossyearthyleatheryphenolicwoody

Use Oakmoss absolute in a formula

What is Oakmoss absolute made of?

An estimate, not a certificate of analysis. PerfuMate sums it when it checks a formula; paste your own supplier analysis and it takes over.

ConstituentCASShare
Methyl 2,4-dihydroxy-3,6-dimethylbenzoate 4707-47-5 12%
Evernic acid 537-09-7 3%
Orcinol 504-15-4 1%
Atranol 526-37-4 0.5%
Chloroatranol 57074-21-2 0.1%

What else is Oakmoss absolute called?

Mousse de chene  ·  Evernia prunastri absolute  ·  Oak moss  ·  Mousse de chêne  ·  Oak moss absolute  ·  Oakmoss

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.

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Which materials are closest to Oakmoss absolute?

Ranked by shared olfactive sub-categories, not alphabetically.

What can replace Oakmoss absolute?

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.

  • Oakmoss Absolute Low Atranol
    carries Mossy earthy, Mossy woody, Mossy green. Dry leather; Animalic leather
    76%
  • Oakmoss Absolute Low Atranol 68% + Isobutyl quinoline 32%
    carries Mossy earthy, Mossy woody, Mossy green. Dry leather; Animalic leather; Oakmoss Absolute Low Atranol brings the Mossy earthy side (68%); Isobutyl quinoline brings the Dry leather side (32%)
    88%
  • Orcinyl 3 65% + Oakmoss Absolute Low Atranol 35%
    carries Mossy earthy, Dry leather, Mossy woody, Mossy green. Animalic leather; Orcinyl 3 brings the Mossy earthy side (65%); Oakmoss Absolute Low Atranol brings the Mossy earthy side (35%)
    87%
  • Oakmoss Absolute Low Atranol 75% + Mousse de Saxe 25%
    carries Mossy earthy, Mossy woody, Mossy green. Dry leather; Animalic leather; Oakmoss Absolute Low Atranol brings the Mossy earthy side (75%); Mousse de Saxe brings the Dry leather side (25%)
    83%
  • Orcinyl 3 86% + Treemoss absolute 14%
    carries Mossy earthy, Dry leather, Mossy woody, Mossy green. Animalic leather; Orcinyl 3 brings the Mossy earthy side (86%); Treemoss absolute brings the Mossy earthy side (14%)
    82%

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Oakmoss absolute

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
4
Sub-categories under them
2
Impact, out of 10
8
Hours on a blotter
17 days
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
6
Constituent breakdown
5 molecules

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.