Tabanone Aroma Chemical | Tobacco, Woody & Sweet Note

Product Name

Tabanone

CAS No.: 581-91-9

🟠 Difficulty: Intermediate
⏳ Lasting: High
🌸 Note: Heart / Base

Description

Tabanone is a distinctive tobacco-type aroma chemical valued for its warm, dry and slightly sweet character. Its odor profile combines tobacco, woody, hay-like and subtly earthy facets, making it useful for creating rich and sophisticated fragrance compositions.

In perfumery, Tabanone is particularly useful for building tobacco, oriental, woody and warm gourmand accords. It can contribute depth and a dry tobacco character to a fragrance while helping connect sweeter ingredients with deeper woody and balsamic notes.

Tabanone works especially well in fragrances inspired by tobacco leaves, warm woods and dark gourmand accords. It can also add an elegant dry contrast to vanilla, tonka and caramel materials, preventing sweet compositions from becoming overly heavy.

Odor Profile

• Tobacco-like

• Woody

• Warm

• Sweet

• Hay-like

• Dry

• Earthy

• Slightly spicy

Recommended Formulation Level (Educational guideline only)

• Trace: 0.10–0.50%

• General use: 0.50–3.00%

• High-impact accords: 3.00–10.00%

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

Works Well With

• Tobacco Absolute

• Vanillin

• Ethyl Vanillin

• Coumarin

• Tonka Bean materials

• Labdanum

• Patchouli

• Cedarwood

• Vetiver

• Cashmeran

• Ambroxan

• Benzoin

• Caramel materials

Common Applications

• Fine Fragrance

• Attars

• Tobacco Accords

• Oriental Fragrances

• Woody Fragrances

• Gourmand Fragrances

• Amber Accords

• Warm Spicy Fragrances

• Oud Accords

• Soap

• Body Care

• Home Fragrance

Perfumers' Tip

Tabanone is useful for creating a warm, sophisticated tobacco effect. Combine it with tobacco absolute and woody materials for a realistic tobacco accord, or pair it with vanilla, tonka and benzoin for a smooth sweet tobacco gourmand. Start at a moderate level and evaluate the drydown, where its warm tobacco character becomes more integrated.