Hexyl Acetate
Hexyl Acetate
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Natural green clarity for sophisticated accords.
The juicy brightness perfumers depend upon.
Crisp apple freshness that lifts any blend.
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This versatile ester opens with an immediately recognisable burst of crisp, green apple and unripe pear. Its bright, watery character captures that mouth-watering moment of biting into fresh fruit. Unlike heavier fruity materials, it delivers a clean, sharp freshness that never becomes cloying or artificial.
Your compositions benefit from its exceptional blending properties—subtle floral facets allow seamless integration into white florals like lily of the valley or magnolia without creating olfactory clashes. The material's "fuzzy" quality creates soft transitions, functioning as an olfactory bridge between sharp citrus top notes and richer floral hearts. Its high diffusion provides immediate impact while low tenacity ensures it doesn't interfere with your composition's development.
Use it strategically as a naturalising agent in fruit accords where synthetic components need softening. Its role in Jean-Claude Ellena's apple accords demonstrates sophisticated deployment—paired with Fructone and Benzyl Acetate for yellow apple effects, or with Allyl Caproate for red apple nuances. The material excels in functional perfumery with excellent stability in most product bases.
- IFRA 51
- No restriction for category 4
- Odour Family
- Fruity
- Appearance
- Colourless liquid
- Longevity
- Lasts 5 hours on a smelling strip.
- INCI Name
- HEXYL ACETATE
Hexyl Acetate presents a bright, crisp apple-pear character with juicy, green freshness and subtle floral facets, offering a mild yet diffusive fruity-sweet aroma with less intensity than amyl acetate but greater blending versatility.
Essential top-note modifier for citrus colognes, floral bouquets, provides juiciness to fruit accords, brightens compositions.
Fraterworks® is strictly a reseller of this product and is neither an agent nor official distributor for Ventos, and is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.
General Information
General Information
Like most suppliers and makers of quality raw materials for fragrances, we do not filter many of our products. This ensures that no odiferous matter is lost prior to use but can result in the appearance of small particles or slight clouding.
All alcoholic fragrances should be macerated for up to a month and then chilled in a moderate freezer overnight before being filtered fine. This will remove all cloudiness or detritus and is the industry norm.
IFRA Standards
IFRA Standards
Permitted amounts in finished product:
IFRA 51: 100%
IFRA 49: 100%
These are derived from calculated concentrations which do not replace chromatographic quantification on individual lots. Disclaimer...
For Trade Use Only
For Trade Use Only
Our products are intended as building blocks in the perfume creation process; they are not to be applied to the skin undiluted.
These raw materials are for use by the perfumery trade only.
UN 3272
Usage in Perfumery
Hexyl Acetate appears in 8% of the perfumes we have analysed, at a median of 0.03% of the concentrate.
- Odour
- Fruity, pear, sweet, green, apple
- Family
- Fruity
- Common dilutions
- 10%, 1%
- Substantivity
- 5 hours on a smelling strip
Free formulasSora Dora Jany (0.7%), Patou Pour Homme (0.289%), Parfums de Marly Delina (0.25%), Crabtree Classic Lavender (0.2%)
GCMS analysesDior higher (0.689%), Nishane Shem (0.12%), Lutens Tubereuse Criminelle (0.04%), Chanel Boy (0.03%), Rogue Bon Monsieur (0.03%), Dior Miss dior Vintage (0.03%), Guerlain Mouchoir de Monsieur (0.0275%), Guerlain Heritage (0.02%), Arpege (0.02%), Dior Diorella Vintage (0.02%), 7753 (0.0142%), Chanel Egoiste (0.01%), Roja Chypre Extraordinaire (0.0061%)
Creative FormulasA Drop d'I. (0.1–10%), Alien Goddess, Alien Hypersense, Ange ou Démon Le Secret, Bad Boy Elixir, Bitter Peach, Black Opium Over Red, Black Opium, Blue Talisman, Coach Men, Code For Women, Delina La Rosée, Elysium Noir, English Pear & Freesia, Guidance 46, Guidance, Idôle, Invictus Parfum, L'Interdit EDP, La Belle Paradise Garden, La Belle, La Nuit Tresór, Love Hibiscus, Million Gold for Her, Olympéa Blossom, Opera, Promise, Sirène, Smoking Hot, The Most Wanted, Un Jardin Sur Le Toit, Angel Fantasm (< 0.1%), Aoud Extraordinaire, Atomic Rose, Aura, Az. Pour Homme Elixir, Champaca Absolute, Deep Blue, Fico di Amalfi, Fig Extasy, Gentleman 2017, Gold Incense, Honeysuckle & Davana, Honour Woman, Intense Red Tobacco, Invictus Aqua, Invictus, Khanjar, Lady Million Privé, Libre, Light Blue Pour Homme EDP, Mandarine Basilic, N°5 Parfum, Nefs, One Shock for Him, Oud Cadenza, Oud Maracujá, Royal Princess Oud, Stronger With You Intensely, Stronger With You Parfum, Supreme Cashmere, Tero, The Ghost In The Shell, Toy Boy, Ultra Male, Velvet Orchid, Via Cavour I, YSL L'Homme L'intense, YSL L'Homme
Mandrake fruit (6.94%), Roman chamomile (5%), Rosa chinensis , China (3.95%), Mango a cv. Langra (2.71%), Valerian, root (1.27%), Olive flower (1.2%), Psidium cattleianum leaf (1%), Guava leaf (0.705%), Cassie absolute (0.5%), Lavender (0.393%), Myrtle leaf (0.34%), Lavandin (0.312%), Chamomile, german (0.23%), Chaenomeles speciosa (0.21%), Ambarella fruit (0.17%), Olibanum, Frankincense (0.16%), Lemon balm (0.155%), Spike lavender (0.117%), Ylang Ylang (0.115%), Rose (0.107%)
Average content per species across published analyses, indexed by Essential Oil University.
Also known by 17 other names
acet C-6; acetate C-6; acetate C-6 (natural); acetate C-6 FCC; acetic acid hexyl ester; acetic acid N-hexyl ester; acetic acid, hexyl ester; hexyl acetate FCC; hexyl acetate natural; hexyl acetate, natural; hexyl alcohol acetate; hexyl alcohol, acetate; hexyl ethanoate; hexyle acetate; N; nat.; n-Hexyl acetate
Statistics drawn from published GCMS analyses, commercial and demonstration formulas. References to third-party perfumes, brand names and trade marks are solely for identification and comparison. Formulas not made, supplied, licensed, authorised, sponsored or endorsed by the manufacturer or trade mark owner.
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Hexyl Acetate