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Tolu balsam

CAS 9000-64-0  ·  Natural  ·  Base note  ·  Balsamic

Impact

5 of 10

Substantivity

17 days on a blotter

Working dilution

Neat or 50% both are common on the bench
Resinous 50%Spicy 25%Gourmand 17%Sweet 8%
balsamic 53%cinnamon 25%vanilla 17%vanillic 6%

What does Tolu balsam smell like?

Sweet cinnamic-vanilla balsam, drier than Peru

balsamiccinnamonvanillicsweetresinous

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What is Tolu balsam 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
Benzyl benzoate 120-51-4 12%
Benzyl cinnamate 103-41-3 15%
Cinnamic alcohol 104-54-1 1%
Benzyl alcohol 100-51-6 1%
Cinnamic aldehyde 104-55-2 0.3%
Eugenol 97-53-0 0.3%

What else is Tolu balsam called?

Myroxylon toluiferum balsam

Restricted under IFRA. This material carries a restriction. PerfuMate checks your formula against the 51st Amendment as you build, including the same molecule arriving from several naturals at once. What that covers, and what it does not.

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Which materials are closest to Tolu balsam?

Ranked by shared olfactive sub-categories, not alphabetically.

What can replace Tolu balsam?

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.

  • Tolu balsam resinoid
    carries Balsamic resinous, Cinnamon spicy, Benzoin resinous, Vanilla gourmand. The same oil in another grade (same CAS); our catalog cannot tell these two apart by their notes, so smell them side by side
    95%
  • Benzoin Sumatra Resinoid
    carries Balsamic resinous, Cinnamon spicy, Benzoin resinous, Vanilla gourmand
    91%
  • Peru balsam Essential Oil
    carries Balsamic resinous, Cinnamon spicy, Benzoin resinous, Vanilla gourmand
    88%
  • Benzoin Sumatra Resinoid 58% + Styrax Essential Oil 42%
    carries Balsamic resinous, Cinnamon spicy, Benzoin resinous, Vanilla gourmand. Vanillic sweet; Benzoin Sumatra Resinoid brings the Benzoin resinous side (58%); Styrax Essential Oil brings the Balsamic resinous side (42%)
    91%
  • Benzoin Sumatra Resinoid 74% + Benzoic Acid 26%
    carries Balsamic resinous, Cinnamon spicy, Benzoin resinous, Vanilla gourmand. Benzoin Sumatra Resinoid brings the Benzoin resinous side (74%); Benzoic Acid brings the Balsamic resinous side (26%)
    91%

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Tolu balsam

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
4
Sub-categories under them
4
Impact, out of 10
5
Hours on a blotter
17 days
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
1
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.