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Orange Flower Water Absolute

CAS 8030-28-2  ·  Natural  ·  Heart note  ·  Honeyed floral

Impact

8 of 10

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Floral 50%Gourmand 25%Animalic 17%Green 8%
honeyed 44%orange-blossom 36%indolic 11%leafy 8%

What does Orange Flower Water Absolute smell like?

Absolute recovered by solvent-washing the distillation waters left over from neroli production, so it carries the water-soluble half of the flower: honeyed and indolic over a dry musty-herbal petitgrain underside the concrete-derived absolute does not show. Used in small amounts to give a neroli or orange-flower accord the green transparency of the living flower.

white floralhoneyindolicgreenfresh

Use Orange Flower Water Absolute in a formula

What is Orange Flower Water 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
Linalool 78-70-6 35%
Phenethyl alcohol 60-12-8 12%
alpha-Terpineol 98-55-5 8%
Nerol 106-25-2 4%
Geraniol 106-24-1 2%
Indole 120-72-9 1%
Methyl N-methylanthranilate 85-91-6 1%
Farnesol 4602-84-0 0.5%

What else is Orange Flower Water Absolute called?

Eau de fleur d'oranger absolute  ·  Bitter orangeflower water absolute  ·  Neroli water absolute  ·  Absolue eau de fleur d'oranger  ·  Citrus aurantium amara flower water absolute  ·  Orange Flower Water

How much Orange Flower Water Absolute can go in a perfume (IFRA limit)

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Which materials are closest to Orange Flower Water Absolute?

Ranked by shared olfactive sub-categories, not alphabetically.

What can replace Orange Flower Water 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.

  • Orange Blossom Absolute
    carries Orange blossom floral, Honey gourmand, Honeyed floral, Indolic animalic. Herbal green; the same oil in another grade (same CAS)
    90%
  • Orange Blossom Absolute 87% + Orange Flower (F-TEC) 13%
    carries Orange blossom floral, Honey gourmand, Honeyed floral, Indolic animalic. White floral; Herbal green; Orange Blossom Absolute brings the Orange blossom floral side (87%); Orange Flower (F-TEC) brings the Orange blossom floral side (13%)
    90%
  • Orange Flower Concrete
    carries Orange blossom floral, Honey gourmand, Honeyed floral, Indolic animalic. Herbal green; the same oil in another grade (same CAS)
    85%
  • Orange Blossom Absolute 50% + Orange Flower Concrete 50%
    carries Orange blossom floral, Honey gourmand, Honeyed floral, Indolic animalic. Herbal green; Orange Blossom Absolute brings the Orange blossom floral side (50%); Orange Flower Concrete brings the Orange blossom floral side (50%)
    88%
  • Orange Flower Concrete 84% + Orange Flower (F-TEC) 16%
    carries Orange blossom floral, Honey gourmand, Honeyed floral, Indolic animalic. Herbal green; Orange Flower Concrete brings the Orange blossom floral side (84%); Orange Flower (F-TEC) brings the Orange blossom floral side (16%)
    84%

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Orange Flower Water Absolute

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
4
Sub-categories under them
4
Impact, out of 10
8
Hours on a blotter
estimated from family and band
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
6
Constituent breakdown
8 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.