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Propolis Absolute

CAS 85665-41-4  ·  Natural  ·  Base note  ·  Balsamic

Impact

6 of 10

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Resinous 55%Gourmand 27%Sweet 18%
balsamic 60%honey 37%vanillic 3%

What does Propolis Absolute smell like?

Bee-glue resinoid: warm balsamic resin over a waxy, honeyed body with a dry cinnamic-vanillic tail. The natural bridge between beeswax and labdanum, and a quiet fixative that gives hive and amber accords a lived-in sweetness.

resinousbalsamicwaxyhoneysweetwarm

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What is Propolis Absolute 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
Cinnamic acid 621-82-9 6%
Benzyl benzoate 120-51-4 5%
Benzyl cinnamate 103-41-3 4%
Benzyl alcohol 100-51-6 1%
Vanillin 121-33-5 1%
Eugenol 97-53-0 0.5%

What else is Propolis Absolute called?

Propolis resinoid  ·  Propolis extract  ·  Bee glue absolute  ·  Propolis cera extract  ·  Propolis  ·  Bee propolis absolute

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What can replace Propolis Absolute?

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.

  • Benzoin Oliffac 999
    carries Balsamic resinous, Benzoin resinous, Balsamic sweet, Vanillic sweet. Honey gourmand; Honeyed sweet; a molecule standing in for a natural: the rest of the oil does not come with it
    60%
  • Honey Provence FirAbs 942539 40% + Peru Balsam Resinoid 10% + Benzoic Acid 50%
    carries Balsamic resinous, Honey gourmand, Benzoin resinous, Honeyed sweet. Balsamic sweet; Vanillic sweet; Honey Provence FirAbs 942539 brings the Honey gourmand side (40%); Peru Balsam Resinoid brings the Balsamic resinous side (10%); Benzoic Acid brings the Balsamic resinous side (50%)
    90%
  • Honey Provence FirAbs 942539 40% + Tolu balsam 10% + Benzoic Acid 50%
    carries Balsamic resinous, Honey gourmand, Benzoin resinous, Honeyed sweet. Balsamic sweet; Vanillic sweet; Honey Provence FirAbs 942539 brings the Honey gourmand side (40%); Tolu balsam brings the Balsamic resinous side (10%); Benzoic Acid brings the Balsamic resinous side (50%)
    89%
  • Benzyl cinnamate 73% + Poplar Bud Absolute 27%
    carries Balsamic resinous, Honey gourmand, Benzoin resinous, Honeyed sweet. Vanillic sweet; Benzyl cinnamate brings the Balsamic resinous side (73%); Poplar Bud Absolute brings the Balsamic resinous side (27%)
    84%
  • Benzoic Acid 58% + Honey Provence FirAbs 942539 42%
    carries Balsamic resinous, Honey gourmand, Benzoin resinous, Honeyed sweet. Balsamic sweet; Vanillic sweet; Benzoic Acid brings the Balsamic resinous side (58%); Honey Provence FirAbs 942539 brings the Honey gourmand side (42%); a molecule standing in for a natural: the rest of the oil does not come with it
    81%

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Which materials are closest to Propolis Absolute?

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.

Propolis Absolute

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
3
Sub-categories under them
3
Impact, out of 10
6
Hours on a blotter
estimated from family and band
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
6
Constituent breakdown
6 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.