# Ethyl Myristate

Source: https://dupehacking.com/ingredients/ethyl-myristate
CAS: 124-06-1



This is a material you smell through rather than at. A faint waxy sweetness, violet-tinged and gently soapy, with just enough fruity warmth to distinguish it from plain wax. The odour sits right at the threshold of perception — quiet, smooth, and lipid-rich. That near-silence is the point. Add ethyl myristate to violet and iris accords and the ionones suddenly smell rounder, more expensive, more like actual flower petals. It provides the fatty backbone that separates a flat violet note from one with three-dimensional depth. Think of it as the waxy residue left on your fingers after handling real orris butter. Try it at trace levels alongside alpha-isomethyl ionone and methylionones for convi… — Fraterworks

## How the catalogue uses it
- Appears in 2 formulas.
- Dose: 0.59% to 6.00%, average 3.29%.
- Most at home in: Oriental.
- Usually weighed alongside: Benzoin Oliffac 50/63, Iso E Super, Vanillin, Coumarin, Hedione, Dihydro Myrcenol.


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