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Tonalide

CAS 21145-77-7  ·  Synthetic  ·  Base note  ·  Powdery musk

Impact

3 of 10

Substantivity

9.2 days on a blotter

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Musk 46%Powdery 23%Sweet 15%Fruity 8%Woody 8%
powdery 48%sweet 21%sugary 15%jammy 8%amberwood 8%

What does Tonalide smell like?

Sweet, dry, powdery polycyclic musk with a distinctly ambery, slightly fruity retro character, harder-edged than Galaxolide; still loved for vintage laundry-musk effects. No IFRA standard covers AHTN; in EU cosmetics Annex III of the Cosmetics Regulation (entry 182) restricts it to 2.5% in fine fragrance, 1% in hydroalcoholic leave-on, 0.5% in fragrance cream, 0.1% in other leave-on and 0.2% in rinse-off products.

muskypowderysweetdryfruity

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What else is Tonalide called?

AHTN  ·  Fixolide  ·  Acetyl hexamethyl tetralin

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What can replace Tonalide?

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.

  • Traseolide
    carries Powdery musk, Musky powdery, Sugary sweet, Sweet musk. Warm musk; Amberwood woody; lasts about 2.3x longer on paper
    82%
  • Traseolide 80% + Globanone 20%
    carries Powdery musk, Musky powdery, Sugary sweet, Sweet musk. Warm musk; Amberwood woody; Traseolide brings the Powdery musk side (80%); Globanone brings the Warm musk side (20%); lasts about 2.3x longer on paper
    84%
  • Traseolide 86% + Muscone 14%
    carries Powdery musk, Musky powdery, Sugary sweet, Sweet musk. Warm musk; Amberwood woody; Traseolide brings the Powdery musk side (86%); Muscone brings the Animalic musk side (14%); lasts about 2.2x longer on paper
    83%
  • Musk Ketone
    carries Powdery musk, Musky powdery, Sugary sweet, Sweet musk. Jammy fruity; Amberwood woody; louder, so use a little less
    78%
  • Musk Ketone 28% + Traseolide 72%
    carries Powdery musk, Musky powdery, Sugary sweet, Sweet musk. Warm musk; Amberwood woody; Musk Ketone brings the Sweet musk side (28%); Traseolide brings the Powdery musk side (72%); lasts about 2.2x longer on paper
    82%

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Which materials are closest to Tonalide?

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Counted from the file the app ships, the moment this page was built.

Tonalide

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
5
Sub-categories under them
5
Impact, out of 10
3
Hours on a blotter
9.2 days
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
3
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.