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Phenylacetic Acid

CAS 103-82-2  ·  Synthetic  ·  Base note  ·  Honey

Impact

8 of 10

Working dilution

1% what we prefill
Gourmand 50%Animalic 25%Sweet 17%Floral 8%
honey 83%civet 17%

What does Phenylacetic Acid smell like?

Deep, sweet honey character with animalic, civet-like and slightly sour-floral facets; honeycomb realism in a bottle. The backbone of honey accords, also lending rosy-honey warmth to florals; easily overdosed into barnyard territory.

honeyanimaliccivetsweetfloral

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What else is Phenylacetic Acid called?

Benzeneacetic acid  ·  alpha-Toluic acid  ·  Honey acid  ·  PAA

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Which materials are closest to Phenylacetic Acid?

Ranked by shared olfactive sub-categories, not alphabetically.

Published formulas using Phenylacetic Acid

Published formulas: PerfuMate's house accords and formulas members chose to publish. The figure is its share of the concentrate.

What blends well with Phenylacetic Acid?

Read from the published formulas: beside Phenylacetic Acid in at least two of them.

What can replace Phenylacetic 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.

  • Honey Provence (Firmenich)
    carries Honey gourmand, Honeyed sweet, Honeyed animalic. Civet animalic; Honeyed floral
    78%
  • Honey Supreme 56% + Honey Provence (Firmenich) 44%
    carries Honey gourmand, Honeyed sweet, Honeyed animalic, Honeyed floral. Civet animalic; Honey Supreme brings the Honey gourmand side (57%); Honey Provence (Firmenich) brings the Honey gourmand side (43%)
    85%
  • Honey Supreme 64% + Civet Base (synthetic) 36%
    carries Honey gourmand, Honeyed sweet, Honeyed floral. Civet animalic; Honeyed animalic; Honey Supreme brings the Honey gourmand side (64%); Civet Base (synthetic) brings the Civet animalic side (36%)
    83%
  • Honey Supreme
    carries Honey gourmand, Honeyed sweet, Honeyed floral. Civet animalic; Honeyed animalic
    77%
  • Honey Provence (Firmenich) 67% + Broom (F-TEC) 33%
    carries Honey gourmand, Honeyed sweet, Honeyed animalic. Civet animalic; Honeyed floral; Honey Provence (Firmenich) brings the Honey gourmand side (67%); Broom (F-TEC) brings the Honeyed floral side (33%)
    81%

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Phenylacetic Acid

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
estimated from family and band
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
4
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.