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Octanoic Acid

CAS 124-07-2  ·  Synthetic  ·  Heart note  ·  Fatty aldehydic

Impact

4 of 10

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Aldehydic 67%Animalic 33%
fatty 44%sweaty 33%waxy 22%

What does Octanoic Acid smell like?

Fatty, rancid-cheesy, sweaty odor. A trace-use acid for cheese, dairy and body/skin nuances in animalic and gourmand accords.

fattysweatywaxyskin-like

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What else is Octanoic Acid called?

Caprylic acid  ·  n-Octanoic acid  ·  C8 acid

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What can replace Octanoic Acid?

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.

  • Nonanoic Acid
    carries Sweaty animalic, Waxy aldehydic. Fatty aldehydic
    81%
  • Nonanoic Acid 56% + Hexanoic Acid 44%
    carries Fatty aldehydic, Sweaty animalic, Waxy aldehydic. Nonanoic Acid brings the Waxy aldehydic side (56%); Hexanoic Acid brings the Sweaty animalic side (44%); lasts about 3.2x longer on paper
    80%
  • Nonanoic Acid 66% + Methyl Linoleate 34%
    carries Fatty aldehydic, Waxy aldehydic. Sweaty animalic; Nonanoic Acid brings the Waxy aldehydic side (66%); Methyl Linoleate brings the Fatty aldehydic side (34%)
    80%
  • Nonanoic Acid 86% + 2,6-Nonadienyl acetate 14%
    carries Sweaty animalic, Waxy aldehydic. Fatty aldehydic; Nonanoic Acid brings the Waxy aldehydic side (86%); 2,6-Nonadienyl acetate brings the Leafy green side (14%)
    80%
  • Nonanoic Acid 68% + Alcohol C-9 32%
    carries Fatty aldehydic, Waxy aldehydic. Sweaty animalic; Nonanoic Acid brings the Waxy aldehydic side (68%); Alcohol C-9 brings the Fatty aldehydic side (32%)
    79%

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Which materials are closest to Octanoic Acid?

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.

Octanoic Acid

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
2
Sub-categories under them
3
Impact, out of 10
4
Hours on a blotter
estimated from family and band
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
3
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.