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Tetradecanal

CAS 124-25-4  ·  Synthetic  ·  Heart note
Aldehydic 46%Amber 23%Resinous 15%Citrus 8%Musk 8%
fatty 31%dry 31%waxy 23%incense 15%

What does Tetradecanal smell like?

Fatty, waxy aldehyde with a dry amber-incense body and a citrus-peel and musk trail, much softer and less soapy than the C8 to C12 aldehydes. This is the true straight-chain aldehyde C-14, not the so-called aldehyde C-14 of perfumery, which is gamma-undecalactone.

fattywaxyamberincensedrycitrusmusky

Impact

5 of 10

Substantivity

17 days on a blotter

Subfamily

Waxy aldehydic

Which families does Tetradecanal belong to?

Aldehydic · 46%

fatty, waxy

Amber · 23%

dry

Resinous · 15%

incense

Citrus · 8%

peel

Musk · 8%

clean

What else is Tetradecanal called?

Aldehyde C-14 (myristic)  ·  Myristaldehyde  ·  Myristic aldehyde  ·  Tetradecyl aldehyde  ·  Tetradecanaldehyde  ·  1-Tetradecanal

Which materials are closest to Tetradecanal?

Ranked by how many olfactive sub-categories they share with Tetradecanal, not alphabetically.

How much does PerfuMate know about one material?

What this page carries, beside what the whole catalog carries. Every figure on the right is counted from the file the app ships, at the moment this page was built, so it cannot drift from the product the way a sentence somebody typed would.

Tetradecanal

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
5
Sub-categories under them
4
Impact, out of 10
5
Hours on a blotter
17 days
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
6
Constituent breakdown
not on file

All 1,581 materials

Described in words
every one
Impact rating out of 10
every one
Classified into an olfactive family
1,547
Carrying several families, in order
1,465
Sub-category assignments
7,405 across 214 pairs
A top / heart / base band
1,532
Hours on a blotter
441
CAS number
1,153
Supplier synonyms
4,308 names
Constituent breakdowns
588

And the limits, because they decide how far the rest can be trusted. 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 428 materials carrying no CAS number the 127 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.

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