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Salicylaldehyde

CAS 90-02-8  ·  Synthetic  ·  Top note  ·  Medicinal herb

Impact

7 of 10

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Herbal 67%Spicy 33%
medicinal 67%cinnamon 33%

What does Salicylaldehyde smell like?

Medicinal phenolic bite with spicy cinnamon and a cooling wintergreen lift, sharper and far more austere than benzaldehyde. Traces give fougere, hay and heliotrope accords an antiseptic edge; overdose reads as disinfectant.

medicinalspicycinnamoncoolingphenolic

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What else is Salicylaldehyde called?

2-Hydroxybenzaldehyde  ·  o-Hydroxybenzaldehyde  ·  Salicylic aldehyde  ·  2-Formylphenol

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What can replace Salicylaldehyde?

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.

  • Methyl 4-Methylsalicylate closer in spirit than in chemistry
    carries Medicinal herbal, Minty herbal. Cinnamon spicy; lasts about 2.8x longer on paper
    54%
  • Methyl 4-Methylsalicylate 68% + Eucalyptol 32% closer in spirit than in chemistry
    carries Medicinal herbal, Minty herbal. Cinnamon spicy; Methyl 4-Methylsalicylate brings the Minty herbal side (68%); Eucalyptol brings the Camphor herbal side (32%); lasts about 2.1x longer on paper
    57%
  • Eucalyptol closer in spirit than in chemistry
    carries Medicinal herbal, Minty herbal. Cinnamon spicy
    51%
  • Eucalyptus Essential Oil closer in spirit than in chemistry
    carries Medicinal herbal, Minty herbal. Cinnamon spicy; a natural standing in for a molecule: it brings more than the note you are replacing
    51%
  • Methyl 4-Methylsalicylate 62% + Eucalyptus Essential Oil 38% closer in spirit than in chemistry
    carries Medicinal herbal, Minty herbal. Cinnamon spicy; Methyl 4-Methylsalicylate brings the Minty herbal side (62%); Eucalyptus Essential Oil brings the Camphor herbal side (38%); a natural standing in for a molecule: it brings more than the note you are replacing; lasts about 2.1x longer on paper
    55%

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Which materials are closest to Salicylaldehyde?

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.

Salicylaldehyde

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
2
Sub-categories under them
2
Impact, out of 10
7
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.