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Propionic Acid

CAS 79-09-4  ·  Synthetic  ·  Top note  ·  Sweaty

Impact

8 of 10

Substantivity

8.0 hours on a blotter

Working dilution

1% our default at this strength
Animalic 67%Gourmand 33%
sweaty 67%milky 33%

What does Propionic Acid smell like?

Sharp, acrid, sour-cheesy odor. Trace-use acid contributing sour, dairy and pungent fermented facets.

sweatymilkyphenolic

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What else is Propionic Acid called?

Propanoic acid  ·  Ethanecarboxylic acid

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What can replace Propionic 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.

  • Isobutyric Acid 71% + S-Methyl Thiobutanoate 29% closer in spirit than in chemistry
    Sweaty animalic; Milky gourmand; Isobutyric Acid brings the Sweaty animalic side (71%); S-Methyl Thiobutanoate brings the Milky gourmand side (29%)
    59%
  • Isobutyric Acid closer in spirit than in chemistry
    carries Sweaty animalic. Milky gourmand
    54%
  • Isobutyric Acid 60% + 3-Methyl-2-butene-1-thiol 15% + S-Methyl Thiobutanoate 25% closer in spirit than in chemistry
    Sweaty animalic; Milky gourmand; Isobutyric Acid brings the Sweaty animalic side (60%); 3-Methyl-2-butene-1-thiol brings the Sweaty animalic side (15%); S-Methyl Thiobutanoate brings the Milky gourmand side (25%)
    59%
  • Isobutyric Acid 84% + Methional 16% closer in spirit than in chemistry
    carries Sweaty animalic. Milky gourmand; Isobutyric Acid brings the Sweaty animalic side (84%); Methional brings the Vegetal green side (16%)
    54%
  • Isobutyric Acid 80% + Butyric Acid 21% closer in spirit than in chemistry
    Sweaty animalic; Milky gourmand; Isobutyric Acid brings the Sweaty animalic side (79%); Butyric Acid brings the Milky gourmand side (21%)
    53%

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Which materials are closest to Propionic Acid?

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.

Propionic Acid

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
2
Sub-categories under them
2
Impact, out of 10
8
Hours on a blotter
8.0 hours
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
2
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.