Palmitic Acid
Palmitic Acid
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Build authentic nude accords from the base up.
Adds waxy body and lasting power to blends.
The secret skin-scent fixative you're missing.
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Palmitic acid greets you not with a shout but a whisper - a barely-there fatty warmth that feels more like clean skin than perfume. It reads waxy and bland in isolation, with a faintly oily, candle-like smoothness. This is a textural material, not a decorative one.
Think of palmitic acid as invisible scaffolding. It slows the evaporation of volatile top notes, anchors fleeting musks to the skin, and adds creamy body to lactonic and floral accords. Pair it with ambrettolide or isoambrettolide for substantive, realistic skin-musk effects. Blend into jasmin or tuberose bases to recreate the thick, waxy feel of living petals.
Try it at low levels to soften harsh aliphatic aldehydes like dodecanal, or fold it into orris reconstructions alongside myristic acid to mimic the fatty matrix of genuine orris butter. You can also use it to build convincing dairy and gourmand textures with gamma-undecalactone and butter esters.
- IFRA 51
- Details coming soon…
- Odour Family
- Musky
- Appearance
- White crystals
- Longevity
- Lasts 400 hours on a smelling strip.
- INCI Name
- 1-NAPHTHALENOL, 1,2,3,4,4A,7,8,8A-OCTAHYDRO-2,4A,5,8A-TETRAMETHYL-, 1-FORMATE
- IUPAC Name
- Hexadecanoic acid
Palmitic acid has a very faint, waxy, fatty odour with a bland, oily, skin-like character that reads more as a tactile impression than a distinct scent.
Fixative and texture-builder in skin scent accords, musk compositions, floral bases, and gourmand blends.
Fraterworks® is strictly a reseller of this product and is neither an agent nor official distributor for Vigon, 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: Coming Soon
IFRA 49:
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.
Usage in Perfumery
Palmitic Acid appears in 8% of the perfumes we have analysed, at a median of tr. of the concentrate.
- Odour
- Fatty, waxy, oily
- Family
- Musky
- Substantivity
- 400 hours on a smelling strip
GCMS analysesTubereuse (0.37%), Chanel Coromandel (0.13%), Guerlain Shalimar (0.092%), Old Spice (0.06%), Clinique Aromatics Elixir (0.06%), Grand Bal (0.051%), Patou Pour Homme (0.05%), Aramis (0.04%), Amouage Vanilla Barka (0.032%), Dior Miss dior Vintage (0.03%), Miglin 112 (0.023%), Roja Chypre Extraordinaire (0.02%)
Catharanthus roseus leaf (46.9%), Geneps fruit (30.2%), Colocasia esculenta (28.8%), Rhubarb root (22.5%), Averrhoa bilimbi fruit (20.4%), Genet absolute (19%), Tamarind dried fruit (14.8%), Parsley leaf (10.14%), Lippia alba (9.71%), Soursop, fruit (9.7%), Croton jimenezii (9.3%), Cassie absolute (9%), Narcissus tazetta absolute (8.8%), Violet odorata leaf (8.5%), Sideritis condensata (7.6%), Bactris gasipaes fruit (7.5%), Pennyroyal (6.78%), Guava leaf (6.61%), Coriander fruit (5.82%), Anthoxanthum odoratum a fresh leaf (4.96%)
Average content per species across published analyses, indexed by Essential Oil University.
Also known by 22 other names
acide palmitique; cetylic acid; emersol 140; glycon P-45; hexadecanoic acid; hexadecoic acid; hexadecylic acid; hystrene 8016; hystrene 9016; neo-fat 16; palmitic acid (hexadecanoic), natural; palmitic acid (natural); palmitic acid FCC; palmitic acid N.F. grade (fine powder) 45 mesh; palmitic acid N.F. grade (fine powder) 50 mesh; palmitic acid N.F. grade (fine powder) 90 mesh; palmitic acid N.F. grade (flake); palmitic acid natural; palmitic acid synthetic; palmitic acid, natural; pentadecane carboxylic acid; prifrac 2960
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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Nitro Musks
Some of our products may contain small amounts of EU and IFRA compliant musk ketone. We never use musk xylene, musk ambrette or any other prohibited materials.
Palmitic Acid