Tonalide
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musk
musky
clean
powdery
sweet
woody
ambery
warm
talc-like
Supplier-specific reference. Verify the exact grade against your own material documentation. Supplier guidance is not an IFRA limit.
Short profile
Sweet, musky and slightly fruity polycyclic musk.
Effect in a formula
Tonalide provides a persistent musky foundation with powdery sweetness, remaining perceptible from the heart into the drydown. It softens the contours of floral and woody compositions and is particularly useful for clean laundry themes and contemporary musk accords.
Use and dosage
The supplier recommends 1–10% of the fragrance formulation, with levels reaching 20% in dedicated musk bases. These are formulation guidelines, not IFRA limits.
No confirmed manufacturer use level for this exact product.
Behaviour and performance
- Tenacity
- The supplier reports persistence for days on a smelling strip. Its evaluation advice is to smell at 1%, but no controlled blotter-test protocol or precise duration is supplied.
Diffusion, tenacity and note impact are not combined into a single performance score.
Dissolving and diluting
- Solvents
- Listed solvent options include ethanol, DPG, IPM and benzyl benzoate. Dissolution in cold ethanol is slow; gentle water-bath warming is reported to produce a clear 10% solution within minutes, retaining clarity after cooling. The page lists water solubility as 1.25 mg/L without a measurement temperature.
- Appearance
- White crystalline solid; the supplier gives an approximate melting point of 54 °C.
Practical tip: Use a lukewarm water bath to help prepare an ethanolic stock rather than waiting for the crystals to dissolve cold. Assess the material at 1%: its soft character can obscure how strong and persistent it actually is.