Product Introduction
Cetalox (CAS: 3738-00-9) delivers an elegant, powerful ambergris scent, enhanced by creamy, musky, and warm skin-like facets. Functioning as a premium fixative and exalting base note, it brings rich volume and diffusion to fragrance formulas. It is ideal for luxury perfumes, premium cosmetics, and fabric care. Technically, Cetalox offers exceptional substantivity on skin and textiles, alongside outstanding stability and non-discoloring properties.
CAS:3738-00-9
Appearance: White to nearly white crystals or powder
Sensory: Agarwood and elegant woody notes
Melting point: 75–85°C
Content: 99.0% min
Acid value: 1.0 max mg KOH/g
Solubility: Insoluble in water; 1 g dissolves in 10 mL of 95% ethanol, or 1 g dissolves in 10 mL of DPG or DEP.
Usage: Possesses excellent diffusibility, imparting a distinctive ambergris-like fragrance to the top note and base note of perfumes, making it suitable for various high-end perfume or fragrance formulations.
Storage: Store in a sealed container, protected from light and heat.
Olfactory Description
- Core Odor Profile: Extremely powerful, elegant, and warm ambergris-woody-musky note.
- Odor Details: Cetalox delivers a highly pure scent, perfectly blending the warmth of natural ambergris with an incredibly clean, “skin-like” sensuality. It features a velvety, dry woody facet (reminiscent of dry cedarwood) accompanied by subtle marine, tobacco, and warm-skin-like musky undertones.
- Spatial Performance: Possesses explosive radiance and diffusion. It is not only highly penetrative on its own but also acts as a “spotlight” that amplifies and adds dimensionality to other ingredients in a formulation.
Product Uses
- Hero Ingredient for Minimalist Perfumery: Because its scent profile is incredibly complete and complex on its own, it is frequently used as the sole active ingredient in minimalist fragrances (most famously in Juliette Has a Gun’s Not a Perfume).
- Ultimate Fixative & Exalter: With extremely low volatility, it anchors top and middle notes while powerfully exalting musks and wood notes, lending deep volume to the entire composition.
- Modern Cleanness Booster: It imparts a highly modern, dry, premium sense of cleanliness to fragrance formulas, reminiscent of freshly washed laundry dried in the sun.
Application Scenarios
- Widely used in iconic mainstream blockbusters (such as the signature dry-down of D&G’s Light Blue) and avant-garde niche fragrances. It is essential for crafting marine, modern woody, and “skin scent” (my-skin-but-better) perfume profiles.
- Incorporated in premium fabric softeners, scent boosters, and high-end liquid detergents. It exhibits extraordinary substantivity on fibers, resisting spinning and high-heat drying cycles to leave a luxurious, long-lasting “clean laundry” aroma on dry clothes for weeks.
- Formulated into high-end shampoos, hair mists, and body washes. Resisting rinse-off during washing, it adheres beautifully to hair and skin, radiating a warm, seductive “natural body scent” triggered by body heat.
- Used in scented candles and reed diffusers. It is exceptionally stable under high combustion temperatures, diffusing evenly without off-notes, instantly elevating the indoor ambiance to a luxury hotel-like atmosphere.
