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Musk

CAS
EC
Material type
fragrance oil
Canonical source
arctander
Formulation

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Cost
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Compatibility tags
muskfloralamberchyprefougereoriental
How it behaves

Olfactory profile

Family
sweet
Note tendency
Base
Descriptors
sweetmusky

A generic synthetic musk character — soft, warm, and skin-like with a powdery, slightly sweet animalic warmth. Diffuse and clean rather than sharp, giving a rounded, sensual base that lingers close to the skin.AI · claude-opus-4-7

Intensity
4 / 10
Tenacity
9 / 10
Volatility
2 / 10
EU cosmetic labelling

Allergen disclosure

AllergenCAS% in ingredient
Geraniol106-24-11%
From supplier SDS

Composition

Substances declared in this material, parsed from the uploaded SDS. Percentages are used by the formula compliance engine to compute effective constituent concentrations.

ConstituentCAS%Range
Phenethyl alcohol60-12-85–10%
alpha-AMYLCINNAMIC ALDEHYDE134-20-31–5%
Geraniol106-24-11–5%
2-Methylundecanal110-41-80.1–1%
chemicals · No. 2281

Arctander monograph

Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 984.

BASEtenacity · highpower · strong
sweetmuskyanimal
MW
266.3
BP
MP
136°C
Sp.Gr.
Refractive n
Rotation
Appearance

Pale yellowish crystals or yellowish-whitish crystalline powder.

Solubility

Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol, soluble in Diethylphthalate, soluble in Benzylbenzoate. Sufficiently soluble in most perfume materials, except in terpenes and other hydrocarbons. Almost insoluble in propylene glycol and glycerin.

Odor

Delicately sweet-musky, mildly, but unquestionably animal-like and very tenacious odor.

Uses in perfumery

This Nitromusk represents one of the most successful improvements of the three classical musks. The title material has the advantage of being stable under exposure to daylight, yet it has the odor characteristics of Musk Ketone, perhaps slightly more delicately animal and sweet. This musk is used on a large scale even today with strong competition from non-nitrous musks. It contributes pleasant and lasting undertones in powdery-floral and Oriental fragrances, in colognes and soap perfumes.

Uses in flavor

The subject Nitromusk is not permitted in food flavors in the U.S.A.

Production

Produced from meta-Xylene via its tertiary-Butylderivative, followed by treatment with formaldehyde and hydrochloric acid, reduction and nitration to title material.

Identity
Aliases · 7
MUSK2,6-Dinitro-3,4,5-trimethyl-tertiary-butyl-benzene5-tertiary-Butyl-1,2,3-trimethyl-4,6-dinitro-benzene5-tertiary-Butyl-4,6-dinitrohemimelliteneMethylanthranilateMusk KetoneMusk Tibetene
Commercial
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