Synthetics
Celestolide smells like a warm, sweet musk with rich, sour, animalic notes, a hint of powderiness, and a subtle plastic undertone.
Luebke, William tgsc, (1984): Animal musk cedar ambergris woody
IFF: This musk has warmth, brilliance, richness and strength. good stability. musk, powdery, fruity note
PerfumersWorld: Warm sweet musk rich sour animal flat powdery plastic
Taytonn ASCC: Animalic/ animal, fruity, musk/ musky, powder/ powdery
Pell Wall Perfumes: Powdery, fruity, slightly animalic, bright, clean
Arctander notes that it “does not discolor soaps or other mildly alkaline products.” . he describes it as having a “mild, sweet-musky odor with a faint, animal undertone and good tenacity. relatively stable under normal conditions in perfume creations. may develop a slightly sour note during storage, a note which is appreciated by some perfumers, disliked by others.” his suggested usage levels are from 0.5% to 3% but he also comments that “certain perfume types may benefit from considerably higher content of celestolide”