Helvetolide
Synthetic Ingredient For Perfumery
Helvetolide, a synthetic musk ingredient from Firmenich, offers a modern musky scent with a fruity pear facet. Known for its top note impact, it excels in liquid applications such as alcohol, shampoo, body wash, and emulsions. Combining well with other musks like exaltolide and habanolide, Helvetolide enhances and fixates fragrances without overpowering them.
Synthetic Ingredient For Perfumery
Helvetolide, a synthetic musk ingredient from Firmenich, offers a modern musky scent with a fruity pear facet. Known for its top note impact, it excels in liquid applications such as alcohol, shampoo, body wash, and emulsions. Combining well with other musks like exaltolide and habanolide, Helvetolide enhances and fixates fragrances without overpowering them.
Synthetic Ingredient For Perfumery
Helvetolide, a synthetic musk ingredient from Firmenich, offers a modern musky scent with a fruity pear facet. Known for its top note impact, it excels in liquid applications such as alcohol, shampoo, body wash, and emulsions. Combining well with other musks like exaltolide and habanolide, Helvetolide enhances and fixates fragrances without overpowering them.
Profile:
📂 CAS N° 141773-73-1
⚖️ MW — 284 g/mol
📝 Odor Type — Musk
📈 Odour Strength — medium, stays 2 weeks on paper.
👃🏼 Odor Profile — Modern musky note with a fruity pear facet. According to Firmenich, it can be considered between Ambrettolide and Musk T (that we have already seen). reminiscence of ambrette seeds. Due to its chemical structure, it adds presence to the top note.
👅 Flavor Profile — Not for Flavour Use
⚗️ Uses — It performs very well in liquid applications, alcohol, shampoo, body wash, and emulsions. It is one of the few musks that can have an impact on the top note too. To me, Helvetolide works better if combined with other musks like exaltolide or habanolide. In this case, even a small amount can be a boost for a musk block. Helvetolide fixates without suppressing the fragrance. It can skew floral notes and smoothens without functional perfumery connotation.
From a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1939 to today, Firmenich has been dedicated to Macrocyclic and Alicyclic musk for over 90 years. These years of dedication and persistence have resulted in Firmenich becoming the leader in this science and is recognized as the house of musk.
The Origins of the Name
Firmenich takes its name from the Swiss scientists who named it in honor of the Helvetic Confederation.
Sources:
National Center for Biotechnology Information (2020). PubChem Compound Summary for CID 16063567. Retrieved November 25, 2020 from https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/16063567.
