Exaltone®
Note Profile
About
Exaltone is Firmenich's macrocyclic musk ketone and the plain parent of muscone. Perfumer's Apprentice gives its smell in four words: musk, sweet, animalic, powdery. The same listing calls it a powerful musky odour very similar to that of muscone, and superior in type and beauty. It is one of a small group of materials the trade calls the finest and most efficient fixatives known.
Scent Profile
Exaltone smells of clean musk first, a powerful, musky presence close to muscone. A sweet edge sits under the musk, with an animal warmth just behind it, slightly stronger than the sweetness. A dry, powdery finish closes it off. It reads as a pure fixative musk rather than a complex accord.
ScentWheel
Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.
ScentArt
Materials That Can Make This Note
Perfumers can use this material directly to make Exaltone®.
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Cyclopentadecanone musky · musk · animal
Smell words come from published sources.
A given perfume with this note may use this material, or something else.
Origin
Made synthetically. CAS 502-72-7, cyclopentadecanone, a 15-membered macrocyclic ketone. It is muscone without the ring methyl group, which is the whole structural difference between the two and the reason the trade compares them.
Usage in Perfumery
A base fixative used at trace levels. The listing states the odour becomes more noticeable at concentrations below 1 per cent, so use is kept at or under 1 per cent of the finished oil. Attested on 5 Parfumo placements across 2 brands, and on no Fragrantica note listing.
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Perfumes featuring Exaltone®
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