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Pivacyclene™ (Givaudan)

CAS 68039-44-1  ·  Synthetic  ·  Heart note  ·  Dry peach

Impact

5 of 10

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Fruity 67%Green 33%
peach 67%green 33%

What does Pivacyclene smell like?

Givaudan gives a dry fruity peach note with a fresh green softness. It is tricyclodecenyl pivalate, and the house is explicit about its job: it is a modifier, used alongside other cyclenes and the gamma-lactones to cut their fattiness. That is the whole point of it in a formula. A peach built on lactones alone goes creamy and heavy, and this dries it out and puts a thin green edge back on the fruit without adding sweetness. Several days on the blotter, up to 5 percent in fine fragrance and cosmetics where the profile allows, around 1 percent in soaps and detergents.

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What else is Pivacyclene called?

Tricyclodecenyl pivalate  ·  3a,4,5,6,7,7a-Hexahydro-4,7-methano-1H-inden-5(6)-yl pivalate

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What can replace Pivacyclene?

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.

  • Delphol HC
    carries green. Peach fruity
    62%
  • Aprifloren 81% + Delphol HC 19%
    Peach fruity; green; Aprifloren brings the Peach fruity side (81%); Delphol HC brings the Jasmine floral side (19%); lasts about 2.3x longer on paper
    66%
  • Aprifloren
    Peach fruity; green; lasts about 2.5x longer on paper
    61%
  • Aprifloren 50% + Frutonile 50%
    carries Peach fruity. Green; Aprifloren brings the Peach fruity side (50%); Frutonile brings the Peach fruity side (50%); lasts about 2.9x longer on paper
    64%
  • Aprifloren 52% + Persicol 48%
    carries Peach fruity. Green; Aprifloren brings the Peach fruity side (52%); Persicol brings the Peach fruity side (48%); lasts about 2.2x longer on paper
    63%

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Which materials are closest to Pivacyclene?

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How much does PerfuMate know about one material?

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Pivacyclene

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
2
Sub-categories under them
2
Impact, out of 10
5
Hours on a blotter
estimated from family and band
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
2
Constituent breakdown
not on file

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Described in words
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Impact rating out of 10
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Classified into an olfactive family
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Carrying several families, in order
2,070
Sub-category assignments
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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.