Ambroxid Crist
SYNTHETIC INGREDIENT FOR PERFUMERY
Ambroxid / Ambrofix is an ingredient of rare potency and stability, ideal for a wide range of applications in the world of fragrances. This key component, known for its excellent quality and durability, is recognized as the preeminent choice for recreating an authentic note of grey amber.
Thanks to its extraordinary substance and longevity, Ambrofix stands out as a must-have in the perfume industry for those looking to enhance their creations with a distinctive and long-lasting amber touch.
Synthetic Ingredient for Perfumery
🏭 Manufacturer — Symrise
📂 CAS N° 6790-58-5
⚠️ Not Food Grade
⚖️ MW — 236.39 g/mol
📝 Odor Type — Ambery
📈 Odor Strength — High, recommended smelling in 10% DPG SOL.
👃🏼 Odor Profile — Ambrofix smell is ambery. It's close to a mixture of iso e super and ambrox DL. Woody, pine, cedar-like with a green seedy and tea-like nuance. Labdanum notes.
👅 Flavor Profile — Woody and fresh, with a piney and nutty nuance. cedarwood, floral, leather-like, slightly tobacco note, and dry musk-like aftertaste. balsamic amber-like.
⚗️Uses — Ambrofix is a highly powerful, highly substantive, and highly stable ambery note for use in all applications. The most suitable material for obtaining an authentic ambergris note. Small amounts (< 0.01 ppm) are used as a flavoring in food.
Ambroxide, widely known by the brand name Ambroxan or Ambrox, is a naturally occurring terpenoid and one of the key constituents responsible for the odor of ambergris. It is an autoxidation product of ambrein. and was it’s Discovery date around 1949-50
IUPAC: 3a,6,6,9a Tetramethyldodecahydronaphtho-[2,1-b]furan.
HISTORY
Ambroxan was discovered around 1949 and 1950 but the first (registered) use date 1976. Few years later, in 1982 by the company Henkel filed a trademark registration for Ambroxan ®
Another Trademark registration under the name Ambroxan ® was file in 2004 by the Japanese Kao Kabushiki Kaisha (we know it as KAO chemicals)
WHAT IS AMBROXID?
Ambroxid, is a diterpenoid and a chemical compound from the class of tetra labdane oxides. Derived from sclareol that is responsible for the odor of ambergris (a solid, waxy, flammable substance produced in the digestive system of sperm whales). It is an organic heterotricyclic compound and a diterpenoid.
Ambrox is considered to be one of the most valuable animal scents besides civet and musk.
It is produced by the reaction of ambergris (main component of the grey ambergris, a waxy substance from the digestive tract of sperm whales) with atmospheric oxygen. Ambrox also occurs in small quantities in the following sources:
Absolute of Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum)
Muscat Sage (Salvia sclarea)
Cistus (Cistus labdaniferus)
Funeral Cypress (Cupressus sempervirens)
Ambroxide is synthesized from sclareol, a component of the essential oil of clary sage. Sclareol is oxidatively degraded to a lactone, which is hydrogenated to the corresponding diol, The resulting compound is dehydrated to form ambroxan. Ambroxide is used in perfumery for creating ambergris notes and as a fixative.
It appears as white crystals \ flakes. depending on the purification method and synthesis.
