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Phenethyl Benzoate

CAS 94-47-3  ·  Synthetic  ·  Base note  ·  Rosy floral

Impact

2 of 10

Substantivity

17 days on a blotter

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Floral 55%Resinous 27%Sweet 18%
rose 36%balsamic 33%honeyed 30%

What does Phenethyl Benzoate smell like?

Soft rose over a faint sweet-balsamic body with a honeyed nuance that benzyl benzoate lacks. A near-odorless fixative that rounds rose and amber bases, and the obvious substitute when benzyl benzoate's allergen load is unwelcome.

rosybalsamichoneyfloralsweettenacious

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What else is Phenethyl Benzoate called?

2-Phenylethyl benzoate  ·  Benzoic acid 2-phenylethyl ester  ·  PEA benzoate

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What can replace Phenethyl Benzoate?

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.

  • Phenylethyl Benzoate
    carries Rose floral, Balsamic resinous, Honeyed floral, Balsamic sweet. Honeyed sweet; the same molecule, sold under another name
    87%
  • Phenylethyl Benzoate 73% + Honeyrose Givco 219 27%
    carries Rose floral, Balsamic resinous, Honeyed floral, Honeyed sweet. Phenylethyl Benzoate brings the Rose floral side (73%); Honeyrose Givco 219 brings the Rose floral side (27%)
    88%
  • Phenylethyl Benzoate 84% + 3-Phenylpropyl Cinnamate 16%
    carries Rose floral, Balsamic resinous, Honeyed floral, Balsamic sweet. Honeyed sweet; Phenylethyl Benzoate brings the Rose floral side (84%); 3-Phenylpropyl Cinnamate brings the Balsamic resinous side (16%)
    86%
  • Phenylethyl Benzoate 84% + Phenylethyl Cinnamate 16%
    carries Rose floral, Balsamic resinous, Honeyed floral, Balsamic sweet. Honeyed sweet; Phenylethyl Benzoate brings the Rose floral side (84%); Phenylethyl Cinnamate brings the Balsamic resinous side (16%)
    86%
  • Phenylethyl Benzoate 60% + Phenethyl Salicylate 40%
    carries Rose floral, Balsamic resinous, Honeyed floral, Balsamic sweet. Honeyed sweet; Phenylethyl Benzoate brings the Rose floral side (60%); Phenethyl Salicylate brings the Rose floral side (40%)
    85%

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Which materials are closest to Phenethyl Benzoate?

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Phenethyl Benzoate

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