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Tropicalia™ (IFF)

CAS 10138-32-6  ·  Synthetic  ·  Top note  ·  Exotic tropical fruit

Impact

8 of 10

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Tropical 55%Fruity 27%Green 18%
mango 64%guava 18%leafy 18%

What does Tropicalia smell like?

Chemically ethyl 5-norbornene-2-carboxylate. Bulkaroma describes it as a very impactful fruity tropical exotic note giving richness and opulence to any white flower accord, with a touch of green minty leaves, and lists it as ethereal, fruity, sweet, tropical, mango and guava. It is the opulence lever for mango, jackfruit, melon and guava accords, and its real value is under white florals, where it reads as the ripe pulpy sweetness a tuberose or frangipani has in the living flower. Impactful enough to shout, so it is dosed against the accord rather than poured into it.

tropicalfruitysweetgreenfreshdiffusive

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What else is Tropicalia called?

Ethyl 5-norbornene-2-carboxylate  ·  Ethyl bicyclo[2.2.1]hept-5-ene-2-carboxylate

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What can replace Tropicalia?

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.

  • Guava Base 270237
    carries Tropical fruity, Guava tropical. Mango tropical; Leafy green; lasts about 2.8x longer on paper
    61%
  • Guava Base 270237 80% + Ivybase 20%
    carries Tropical fruity, Guava tropical. Mango tropical; Leafy green; Guava Base 270237 brings the Guava tropical side (80%); Ivybase brings the Leafy green side (20%); lasts about 2.4x longer on paper
    66%
  • Guava Base 270237 80% + Green Ivy Givco 168 20%
    carries Tropical fruity, Guava tropical. Mango tropical; Leafy green; Guava Base 270237 brings the Guava tropical side (80%); Green Ivy Givco 168 brings the Leafy green side (20%); lasts about 2.7x longer on paper
    66%
  • Guava Base 270237 80% + Green Note Natural 20%
    carries Tropical fruity, Guava tropical. Mango tropical; Leafy green; Guava Base 270237 brings the Guava tropical side (80%); Green Note Natural brings the Leafy green side (20%); lasts about 2.4x longer on paper
    66%
  • Guava Base 270237 80% + White Tea 20%
    carries Tropical fruity, Guava tropical. Mango tropical; Leafy green; Guava Base 270237 brings the Guava tropical side (80%); White Tea brings the Leafy green side (20%); lasts about 2.7x longer on paper
    65%

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Which materials are closest to Tropicalia?

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How much does PerfuMate know about one material?

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Tropicalia

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
3
Sub-categories under them
3
Impact, out of 10
8
Hours on a blotter
estimated from family and band
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
2
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

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