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Vetiver Absolute

CAS 84238-29-9  ·  Natural  ·  Base note  ·  Vetiver rooty

Impact

8 of 10

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Woody 46%Earthy 23%Sweet 15%Amber 8%Smoky 8%
vetiver 31%smoky 23%rooty 23%balsamic 20%warm 3%

What does Vetiver Absolute smell like?

Denser and sweeter than the distilled oil, with the rooty-earthy vetiver core wrapped in a balsamic, tobacco-like richness and a soft smoky drydown. A concentrated fixative for chypre and amber bases where the oil reads too dry and grapefruity.

vetiverearthysweetbalsamictobaccowoodysmoky

Use Vetiver Absolute in a formula

What is Vetiver Absolute 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
Khusimol 16223-63-5 15%
alpha-Vetivone 15764-04-2 5%
beta-Vetivone 18444-79-6 5%
Nootkatone 4674-50-4 1%

What else is Vetiver Absolute called?

Vetiver root absolute  ·  Vetivert absolute  ·  Chrysopogon zizanioides absolute  ·  Vetiveria zizanioides absolute  ·  Vetiver abs

How much Vetiver Absolute can go in a perfume (IFRA limit)

Work out a 10% dilution of Vetiver Absolute with the free dilution calculator What is a fixative in perfume?

What can replace Vetiver Absolute?

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.

  • Vetiver Bourbon Essential Oil
    carries Vetiver woody, Smoky woody, Rooty earthy, Smoke smoky. Balsamic sweet; Soil earthy; Tobacco amber
    69%
  • Vetikone 43% + Vetiver Bourbon Essential Oil 57%
    carries Vetiver woody, Smoky woody, Rooty earthy, Soil earthy. Balsamic sweet; Tobacco amber; Vetikone brings the Vetiver woody side (43%); Vetiver Bourbon Essential Oil brings the Vetiver woody side (57%)
    75%
  • Vetiver Bourbon Essential Oil 56% + Vetiverol 44%
    carries Vetiver woody, Smoky woody, Rooty earthy, Balsamic sweet. Soil earthy; Tobacco amber; Vetiver Bourbon Essential Oil brings the Vetiver woody side (56%); Vetiverol brings the Vetiver woody side (44%)
    75%
  • Vetikone 54% + Vetiverol 46%
    carries Vetiver woody, Rooty earthy, Balsamic sweet, Soil earthy. Smoky woody; Tobacco amber; Vetikone brings the Vetiver woody side (54%); Vetiverol brings the Vetiver woody side (46%)
    74%
  • Vetiver Bourbon Essential Oil 71% + Patchouli Essential Oil Iron-Free 29%
    carries Vetiver woody, Smoky woody, Rooty earthy, Smoke smoky. Balsamic sweet; Soil earthy; Tobacco amber; Vetiver Bourbon Essential Oil brings the Vetiver woody side (71%); Patchouli Essential Oil Iron-Free brings the Rooty earthy side (29%)
    74%

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Which materials are closest to Vetiver Absolute?

Ranked by shared olfactive sub-categories, not alphabetically.

How much does PerfuMate know about one material?

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

Vetiver Absolute

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
5
Sub-categories under them
5
Impact, out of 10
8
Hours on a blotter
estimated from family and band
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
5
Constituent breakdown
4 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.