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Velvetone™ (Bedoukian Research)

CAS 68555-94-2  ·  Synthetic  ·  Base note  ·  Orris violet

Impact

6 of 10

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Powdery 55%Floral 27%Woody 18%
iris 74%woody 18%violet 7%

What does Velvetone smell like?

Bedoukian's copy reads powdery, woody, wonderful orris-violet, and positions it as more floral than gamma-methyl ionone, with a diffusive orris character and less wood. TGSC files the odour type as powdery, strength medium, substantivity greater than 48 hours at full strength. In a formula it is the orris that does not need orris: it lays a dry violet-powder veil over a woody or ambery base, extends a real iris butter, and softens the edge of an aldehydic or rosy top. Being less woody than the methyl ionones, it also stays out of the way of sandalwood and cedar materials sharing the same base.

powderywoodyfloraldrytenacious

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What else is Velvetone called?

Dimethyl ionone  ·  4-Methyl-homo-alpha-ionone

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What can replace Velvetone?

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.

  • Orris floraline 2006
    carries Iris powdery, Violet powdery, Orris floral, Violet floral. Woody
    71%
  • Orris floraline 2006 50% + Irival Oliffac 0612 50%
    carries Iris powdery, Orris floral, Violet floral, Powdery floral. Woody; Violet powdery; Orris floraline 2006 brings the Orris floral side (50%); Irival Oliffac 0612 brings the Orris floral side (50%)
    73%
  • Orris floraline 2006 77% + Iralia 23%
    carries Iris powdery, Violet powdery, Orris floral, Violet floral. Woody; Orris floraline 2006 brings the Orris floral side (77%); Iralia brings the Violet floral side (23%); lasts about 2.1x shorter on paper
    73%
  • Orris floraline 2006 70% + Elixiris 30%
    carries Iris powdery, Violet powdery, Orris floral, Violet floral. Woody; Orris floraline 2006 brings the Orris floral side (70%); Elixiris brings the Cedar woody side (30%)
    73%
  • Orris floraline 2006 77% + Veltonal 23%
    carries Violet powdery, Orris floral, Violet floral, Powdery floral. Iris powdery; woody; Orris floraline 2006 brings the Orris floral side (77%); Veltonal brings the Berry fruity side (23%); lasts about 2.3x shorter on paper
    73%

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Which materials are closest to Velvetone?

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Velvetone

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
3
Sub-categories under them
3
Impact, out of 10
6
Hours on a blotter
estimated from family and band
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
2
Constituent breakdown
not on file

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Described in words
every one
Impact rating out of 10
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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.