Fixateur 404 is a fixative base used to anchor and prolong fragrance compositions. On its own it reads as a soft, slightly sweet musky-woody amber with powdery-balsamic undertones — quiet, diffuse, and long-lasting rather than characterful.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 570.
Very viscous, colorless liquid
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol, miscible with most perfume oils, poorly soluble in Propylene glycol
Its odor is not very impressive at first - or when undiluted. But when properly diluted, preferably incorporated and well mellowed in a composition, it shows its exceptionally powerful, yet delicately dry, woody-Ambergris-like, extremely tenacious odor.
Outstanding fixative for many types of fragrance, for all the Ionones and many Oriental bases, for the modern fruity-aldehydic fragrances.
Produced from (several methods): e. g. from Manool or Sclareol, two isolates from natural oils. It has also been produced from isolated components of natural Ambergris.