# Isoamyl Isovalerate

Source: https://dupehacking.com/ingredients/isoamyl-isovalerate
CAS: 659-70-1



Few materials capture the smell of a ripe apple as convincingly as this one. The fruitiness is rich, sweet, and thoroughly naturalistic — more orchard than candy shop — with apricot and mango notes rounding out the edges. A faintly jammy quality keeps it from feeling too clean or abstract. The limitation is persistence. Under three hours on a blotter means this vanishes quickly without support. Pair it with longer-lasting fruity materials or fixatives to carry its apple character deeper into your composition. At its best, it provides a burst of realistic fruit in the opening that nothing else quite matches. Champagne and cider accords benefit from its natural-smelling apple quality. Damascen… — Fraterworks

## How the catalogue uses it
- Appears in 2 formulas.
- Dose: 3.00% to 20.00%, average 11.50%.

- Usually weighed alongside: Isoamyl Butyrate, Benzyl Acetone, Benzyl Propionate, Acetoin, Herbanate, Vanillin.


## Citing this
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