A synthetic nitro-musk (acetyl ethyl tetralin) with a warm, sweet, slightly powdery musk character and a soft woody-animalic undertone. Smooth and diffusive on the drydown, less sharp than musk xylene but with the classic vintage nitro-musk sweetness. Now largely restricted/banned in fragrance use.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1381.
White or ivory-colored crystals, flakes or fused mass.
Practically insoluble in water, 8% soluble in alcohol, 10% soluble in vegetable oil, 62% in Diethyl phthalate, miscible with most perfume oils and materials.
Sweet, distinctly musky, and soft-creamy odor of good tenacity.
This Tetralin-musk is one of the most successful non-Nitro musks from an economical point of view. It is widely used as a musky fixative in modern soap perfumes and has contributed to the success of several well-known soaps.
Produced from Ethylbenzene plus 2,5-Dichloro-2,5-dimethylhexane.