A classic nitro musk with a sweet, powdery, slightly warm character. Softer and more rounded than Musk Xylene, with a candied, almost vanillic-powder facet and a clean laundry-musk undertone. Excellent fixative that lends smoothness and volume to floral and oriental bases.AI · claude-opus-4-7
Other ingredients whose composition declares this material as a constituent. The percentage shown is the supplier-declared concentration in that parent.
| Ingredient | % | Range |
|---|---|---|
| Orrisodore | — | 10–25% |
| Fleur De Tabac | — | 3–5% |
| Poivre Fort | — | 1–5% |
| Oeillet 208 | — | 1–3% |
Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 983.
Pale yellowish platelets or crystalline powder.
Sweet and very tenacious musky odor with discrete animal note, less floral than Musk Ambrette. The characteristic note is the warm and mildly animal note.
Sweet and mildly musky taste in concentra- tions lower than 40 ppm. Musk Ketone has less tendency of producing a bitter note than Musk Ambrette. Yet, Musk Ketone is not listed as G.R.A.S. by the American Federal Register.
Musk Ketone is, with Ambrette and Xylol, one of the most frequently and widely used artificial musks. It is used in perfume composi- tions often in conjunction with Musk Ambret- te as part of the fixative complex for almost any fragrance type. However, it is particularly suitable for producing the desirable “powdery” note with Methylionones, Cinna- mic alcohol, Benzylsalicylate, etc. Concentra- tions vary from about 1° to more than 10% (in rare cases) in the fragrance formulation.
The title material has been used in flavor compositions at concentrations up to 20-45 ppm (in the finished product), mainly as a fixative and sweetener in chewing gums and other types of candy. The material is included in the “Chemicals Used in Food Processing” by the National Research Council, Washing- ton, DC, 1965, but Musk Ketone is not listed as G.R.A.S. in the latest summary of the F.E.M.A. or the Federal Register.
Produced from tertiary-Butylxylene by Acetylation followed by Nitration.
| Category | Kind | Max % | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Category 1 | Specification | — | See note above | DOC |
| Category 2 | Specification | — | See note above | DOC |
| Category 3 | Specification | — | See note above | DOC |
| Category 4 | Specification | — | See note above | DOC |
| Category 5A | Specification | — | See note above | DOC |
| Category 5B | Specification | — | See note above | DOC |
| Category 5C | Specification | — | See note above | DOC |
| Category 5D | Specification | — | See note above | DOC |
| Category 6 | Specification | — | See note above | DOC |
| Category 7A | Specification | — | See note above | DOC |
| Category 7B | Specification | — | See note above | DOC |
| Category 8 | Specification | — | See note above | DOC |
| Category 9 | Specification | — | See note above | DOC |
| Category 10A | Specification | — | See note above | DOC |
| Category 10B | Specification | — | See note above | DOC |
| Category 11A | Specification | — | See note above | DOC |
| Category 11B | Specification | — | See note above | DOC |
| Category 12 | Specification | — | See note above | DOC |
Compliance-support only. Values resolved from the current IFRA corpus; each row cites the document excerpt it came from. Not a substitute for a qualified safety assessor.