Muscенone Aroma Chemical | Clean Musk & Powdery Note

Product Name

Muscенone

CAS No.: 82356-66-3

🟢 Difficulty: Advanced

⏳ Lasting: High

🌸 Note: Base

Description

Muscенone is a sophisticated macrocyclic musk aroma chemical valued for its elegant, warm and clean musk character. It has a soft, powdery and slightly animalic quality that gives compositions a natural and luxurious musk impression. At suitable dilution, it can appear smooth and velvety, with excellent persistence and a subtle sensual warmth.

In perfumery, Muscenone is mainly used as a high-quality base-note musk and fragrance finisher. It can provide depth, softness and diffusion while helping round out floral, woody, amber and oriental compositions. Its refined character makes it especially useful when a perfumer wants a sophisticated skin-musk effect rather than a strongly synthetic or detergent-like musk profile.

Muscენone can also help extend the overall impression of a fragrance and smooth transitions between heart and base materials. Because it is powerful and persistent, it is generally used carefully and evaluated over an extended period on a blotter and on skin.

Odor Profile

• Clean musk

• Soft

• Powdery

• Warm

• Velvety

• Slightly animalic

• Sensual

• Woody-musky

Recommended Formulation Level (Educational guideline only)

• Trace: 0.01–0.05%

• General use: 0.05–0.50%

• High-impact accords: 0.50–2.00%

These are formulation guidelines for perfumers and are not IFRA limits.

Works Well With

• Ambrettolide

• Habanolide

• Galaxolide

• Ethylene Brassylate

• Exaltolide

• Helvetolide

• Iso E Super

• Cashmeran

• Hedione

• Benzyl Salicylate

• Sandalwood materials

• Amber materials

Common Applications

• Fine Fragrance

• Attars

• Eau de Parfum

• Musk Accords

• Floral Fragrances

• Woody Fragrances

• Amber Fragrances

• Oriental Fragrances

• Body Care

• Home Fragrance

Perfumers' Tip

Muscენone is best used as a refining base-note musk rather than a dominant odor. Combine it with other macrocyclic musks for a fuller musk accord, or use it beneath floral and woody materials to add softness, persistence and a smooth skin-like finish. Start low and allow the composition to mature before increasing the dosage.