A classic macrocyclic lactone musk — soft, clean, sweetly powdery with a warm waxy-oily nuance. Rounded and diffusive without the sharpness of nitro musks, lending a natural skin-like radiance and long-lasting fixative effect.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Other ingredients whose composition declares this material as a constituent. The percentage shown is the supplier-declared concentration in that parent.
| Ingredient | % | Range |
|---|---|---|
| HABANOLIDE | — | 5–7.5% |
| APPLE | — | — |
| MILK F-TEC | — | — |
| TAR & SMOKE | — | — |
Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 335.
Solid, colorless, crystalline mass, melting at 36-37°C to a colorless, viscous oil.
Delicately animal, musky and sweet, extremely tenacious odor of outstanding uniformity.
Cyclopentadecanolide gives highly interesting effects when applied to certain flavors, e.g. alcoholic beverages, dentifrice flavors etc.
Common use level in the perfume oil is about 0.1 to 0.49%. The fixative effect is absolutely unusual in that it is not a physical fixation, but a true fixative and mellowing effect at incredibly low concentration of usage.
Concentration in such flavors may be about 0.02 to 1.50 ppm calculated upon the finished consumer product. However, it should be kept in mind that dentifrices are flavored at extremely high concentration (about 1%) and it may therefore give an underestimated evaluation of the power of this Lactone.
1) by oxidation of Cyclopentadecanone. 2) from linear polyesters of Pentadecanoic acid.
Natural complex substances (NCSs) in which this material typically occurs.
| NCS | Botanical | Typical % |
|---|---|---|
| ANGELICA SEED OIL | Angelica archangelica L. | 1.6% |
| GALBANUM GUM | Ferula spp. | 0.01% |