Aroma ChemicalFloralBase note
Benzophenone.
Has a faint, powdery-rosy geranium-like odor with metallic undertones that evolves to reveal woody, lacquered facets and a prominent rose character on drydown.
CAS Registry
119-61-9
Odor Strength
Low
Pyramid
Base
IFRA Status
Unrestricted
Cat 4 · Fine fragranceFrom the literature
TGSC, suppliers, and others, quoted as filed.
Luebke, William tgsc, (1981)“Balsam rose metallic powdery geranium”
Moellhausen“Fruity, citric note, sweet, geranium”
PerfumersWorld“Sweet aromatic slightly-rose fruity-vinyl very faint powdery-rosy geranium-like odor with a slightly metallic note”
Pell Wall Perfumes“Floral-rose, powdery, geranium, metalic arctander describes it like this: “used extensively in perfumes for sweet-woody-geranium-like notes in low-cost fragrances, soap perfumes, etc. useful as a fixative. it has an extremely low vapor pressure at room temperature, and its effect upon the fragrance is only perceptible and apparent in mixtures with lower boiling items or at higher temperatures.””
Functional profile
How perfumers typically use Benzophenone — concentration ranges (min · median · max) across community formulas.
Support
2 formulas
Build
1 formula
Common formula contexts
Fragrance styles and categories where Benzophenone appears most often.
Complex Composition
2 formulas
Floral Bouquet
1 formula
