Leather glove, white musk powder, and amber sphere floating in a neutral space—visual metaphor for Shangralide®’s musky, slightly animalic scent profile.
Amber lab bottle labeled “Shangralide®,” representing a proprietary musk base by IFF used in animalic-floral and chypre fragrances.
Leather glove, white musk powder, and amber sphere floating in a neutral space—visual metaphor for Shangralide®’s musky, slightly animalic scent profile.
Amber lab bottle labeled “Shangralide®,” representing a proprietary musk base by IFF used in animalic-floral and chypre fragrances.

Shangralide ®

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Premium Base Ingredient for Perfumery

Shangralide® is a proprietary musk base developed by International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF), formulated to emulate the depth and warmth of natural deer musk using vegan-compliant polycyclic musks. The blend features approximately 55% hexamethyl-indanopyran (HHCB, known commercially as Galaxolide™), balanced with leather-toned and powdery-musky facets. It offers strong tenacity, high oxidative stability, and smooth diffusion, making it an effective fixative and musk amplifier in both fine and functional perfumery.

Shangralide delivers naturalistic animalic softness without regulatory or ethical constraints associated with natural musks.

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Premium Base Ingredient for Perfumery

Shangralide® is a proprietary musk base developed by International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF), formulated to emulate the depth and warmth of natural deer musk using vegan-compliant polycyclic musks. The blend features approximately 55% hexamethyl-indanopyran (HHCB, known commercially as Galaxolide™), balanced with leather-toned and powdery-musky facets. It offers strong tenacity, high oxidative stability, and smooth diffusion, making it an effective fixative and musk amplifier in both fine and functional perfumery.

Shangralide delivers naturalistic animalic softness without regulatory or ethical constraints associated with natural musks.

Technical Ingredient Overview

  • 🏭 Manufacturer — International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF)

  • 🧪 Synonyms — Shangralide®, Shangralide Oliffac 0712

  • 🧬 Chemical Formula — Mixture (principal constituent ≈ 55 % hexamethyl-indanopyran / Galaxolide)

  • 📝 Odor Type — Musk (Slight Animalic note)

  • 📈 Odor Strength — Strong

  • 👃🏼 Odor Profile — Sensual, sweet deer-musk analogue with leathery, slightly dirty nuances

  • ⚗️ Uses — Fine-fragrance fixative, animalic musk booster, fabric & air-care bases

  • 🧴 Appearance — Colourless–pale-yellow clear liquid.

What is Shangralide?

Shangralide is an IFF proprietary Oliffac™ musk specialty created to reproduce the depth of natural deer musk without animal sources. The concentrate contains ~55 % of the polycyclic musk hexamethyl-indanopyran (HHCB, Galaxolide) dissolved in dipropylene glycol plus trace auxiliaries, yielding a readily dosable liquid with high oxidative and colour stability (IFF, 2024).

Historical Background

  • Polycyclic musks emerged in the 1950 s; HHCB itself was introduced by IFF in 1965 and quickly became the market-dominant “clean” musk (Sell, 2019).

  • The blend was designed to enrich HHCB with subtle leather-toned co-ingredients, catering to niche-perfumery demand for animalic realism while remaining vegan-compliant.

Olfactory Profile & Performance

  • Scent family: Animalic-musk (polycyclic)

  • Key descriptors: Sweet · musky · animalic · leather · warm-powdery

  • Role in fine fragrance:

    • Provides a naturalistic musk backbone in chypre-leather and floral-oriental compositions.

    • Rounds phenolic indoles and amplifies cedar/oud nuances.

    • Synergises with other polycyclic musks such as [[Galaxolide]] for volume, or macrocyclic musks like [[Ambrettolide]] for polish.

Industrial & Technical Uses

Beyond fine fragrance, Shangralide is utilised in fabric softeners, laundry detergents, scented candles, and water-based air-care emulsions owing to its high fibre substantivity and diffusion through heated wax matrices (IFF, 2024).

References

  • Campos, I., & colleagues. (2023). Synthetic musks in the natural environment: Sources, occurrence, concentration, and fate—A review of recent developments (2010–2023). Environmental Chemistry Reviews, 35(4), 211-233.

  • International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF). (2020). Safety Data Sheet: Shangralide Oliffac 0712

  • International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF).

  • Research Institute for Fragrance Materials (RIFM). (2023). Fragrance ingredient safety assessment: 1,3,4,6,7,8-hexahydro-4,6,6,7,8,8-hexamethyl-cyclopenta-g-2-benzopyran (Galaxolide™).

  • Sell, C. S. (2019). The Chemistry of Fragrances (3rd ed.). Royal Society of Chemistry.