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Teak™ (dsm-firmenich)

A base — a blend, so no CAS number  ·  Synthetic  ·  Base note  ·  Dry woody amber

Impact

6 of 10

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Woody 67%Amber 33%
dry 56%dry 44%

What does Teak smell like?

Perfumer's Apprentice list it in the woody family with the odour given as woody and ambery, and describe it as a fresh, light, crisp teak blend from Firmenich. It is a compounded house base carrying a mixture CAS rather than a single molecule, currently supplied as version 109955 GRF17 after the earlier version was discontinued in 2023. In a formula it is a dry sawn-timber woody-amber that reads lighter and crisper than a sandalwood or oud base, useful as the woody spine of a masculine or a modern fougere where a creamy wood would sit too heavy.

woodydryamberfreshwarm

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What else is Teak called?

Teak 109955 GRF17

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What can replace Teak?

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.

  • Amber Gamma
    carries Dry woody, Dry amber, Amberwood woody
    92%
  • Amber Gamma 66% + Dihydro Ambrate 34%
    carries Dry woody, Dry amber, Amberwood woody. Amber Gamma brings the Amberwood woody side (66%); Dihydro Ambrate brings the Dry amber side (34%)
    93%
  • Amber Gamma 86% + Spirambrene 14%
    carries Dry woody, Dry amber, Amberwood woody. Amber Gamma brings the Amberwood woody side (86%); Spirambrene brings the Dry amber side (14%)
    92%
  • Amber Gamma 50% + Aldambre 50%
    carries Dry woody, Dry amber, Amberwood woody. Amber Gamma brings the Amberwood woody side (50%); Aldambre brings the Dry woody side (50%)
    92%
  • Amber Gamma 80% + Trisamber 20%
    carries Dry woody, Dry amber, Amberwood woody. Amber Gamma brings the Amberwood woody side (80%); Trisamber brings the Amberwood woody side (20%)
    91%

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Which materials are closest to Teak?

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.

Teak

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
2
Sub-categories under them
2
Impact, out of 10
6
Hours on a blotter
estimated from family and band
CAS number
not on file
Supplier and trade synonyms
1
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.