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Orris Butter

CAS 8002-73-1  ·  Natural  ·  Base note  ·  Violet iris

Impact

7 of 10

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Floral 55%Powdery 27%Aldehydic 18%
orris 57%powdery 18%violet 15%waxy 10%

What does Orris Butter smell like?

Waxy solid extract of aged Iris pallida rhizomes: intensely powdery, rooty iris with violet, suede, and carroty-fatty facets and remarkable tenacity. One of perfumery's most precious materials, lending unmatched naturalness to iris, violet and powdery cosmetic accords.

iris orrispowderyvioletwaxyfatty

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What is Orris Butter 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
Myristic acid 544-63-8 75%
alpha-Irone 79-69-6 10%
Benzyl benzoate 120-51-4 1%

What else is Orris Butter called?

Orris concrete  ·  Iris butter  ·  Beurre d'iris  ·  Iris pallida root extract  ·  Orris

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What can replace Orris Butter?

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.

  • Orris Butter (Iris germanica)
    carries Orris floral, Iris powdery, Violet floral, Powdery floral. Powdery aldehydic
    86%
  • Orris Butter (Iris germanica) 83% + Ultralia 17%
    carries Orris floral, Iris powdery, Violet floral, Powdery floral. Waxy aldehydic; Fatty aldehydic; Powdery aldehydic; Orris Butter (Iris germanica) brings the Orris floral side (83%); Ultralia brings the Violet floral side (17%)
    88%
  • Orris Butter (Iris germanica) 64% + Alpha-Irone 36%
    carries Orris floral, Iris powdery, Violet floral, Powdery floral. Fatty aldehydic; Powdery aldehydic; Orris Butter (Iris germanica) brings the Orris floral side (64%); Alpha-Irone brings the Orris floral side (36%)
    87%
  • Orris Butter (Iris germanica) 75% + Orris floraline 2006 25%
    carries Orris floral, Iris powdery, Violet floral, Powdery floral. Waxy aldehydic; Fatty aldehydic; Powdery aldehydic; Orris Butter (Iris germanica) brings the Orris floral side (75%); Orris floraline 2006 brings the Orris floral side (25%)
    87%
  • Orris Butter (Iris germanica) 67% + Orris Root CO2 Extract (Iris pallida) 33%
    carries Orris floral, Iris powdery, Violet floral, Powdery floral. Fatty aldehydic; Powdery aldehydic; Orris Butter (Iris germanica) brings the Orris floral side (67%); Orris Root CO2 Extract (Iris pallida) brings the Orris floral side (33%)
    86%

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Which materials are closest to Orris Butter?

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.

Orris Butter

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
3
Sub-categories under them
4
Impact, out of 10
7
Hours on a blotter
estimated from family and band
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
5
Constituent breakdown
3 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.