Clarycet

What Clarycet smells like

Clarycet (IFF) is, in IFF's own description, a herbal, floral, rosy odour with a dry plum fruitiness and a suggestion of clary sage and cedarwood, which augments rose-ketone notes. A broader database entry lists cedarwood, celery, clary sage, fruity, herbal, mushroom and wine; a community description calls it sage and fruit, herbal and wine-like.

Leading note

Herbal dry plum

Clear facets

Rosy

Supporting facets

Clary sage

Faint facets

Cedarwood, wine

Character

Dry, herbal, fruity, warm

• herbal
• fruity
• clary sage
• fresh

What makes Clarycet distinctive

Dried plum in a herb garden: a dry, winey fruitiness with clary-sage and rose, used to support the damascone-type rose ketones.

How Clarycet is used

Used to augment rose-ketone notes in fruity-floral compositions and in green-amber and warm spicy accords.

Typical role: modifier (used in small amounts to change the character of a blend).

How Clarycet differs from similar materials

Clary Sage Oil

Clary sage oil is the natural floral-tea herb with a musky, ambery depth; Clarycet is drier and fruitier, a plum note with a hint of clary sage.

Each difference compares the published descriptions of the two materials. Smell varies with grade, supplier and dilution; compare them side by side on blotters before substituting one for another.

Identity and classification

Type

Aroma chemical

Origin

Synthetic

Odour family

Aromatic / Fruity

Note position

Top to heart note

Physical form at room temperature

Liquid

Also known as

Tetrahydro-4-methyl-2-propyl-2H-pyran-4-yl acetate

CAS number

131766-73-9

Molecular formula

C11H20O3

Molecular weight

200.27 g/mol

IUPAC name

(4-methyl-2-propyloxan-4-yl) acetate

The CAS number, formula and molecular weight are taken from PubChem compound 57483300, whose own record lists this CAS number; checked 19 October 2026.

Safety and compliance

Hazard classification of the neat substance, as PubChem summarises it, read 26 October 2026. It has a harmonised EU classification (Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008, Annex VI): H317 may cause an allergic skin reaction. Companies notifying the ECHA C&L Inventory classify it (1,550 reports): H317 may cause an allergic skin reaction (100% of reports). A skin sensitiser classification concerns handling the neat material and the dose in a finished product; the IFRA Standards, where they apply, set the limits. Unless it is harmonised, this is the notifiers' own classification, not a binding one.

This page is general information, not a safety assessment or a specification. Confirm identity, composition, IFRA status and allergen content from your supplier's documents for the lot you hold.

Materials it works with

• Clary Sage Oil

  Essential oil · Aromatic / Amber — herbal, tea-like, ambery, musky

• Linalyl Acetate

  Aroma chemical · Aromatic / Fruity — fruity, floral, bergamot, lavender

• Lavender Oil

  Essential oil · Aromatic / Floral — lavender, herbal, floral, fresh

• Florol

  Aroma chemical · Floral / Green — muguet, fresh, floral, clean

Used in formulas and accords

Used in 2 published formulas

Clarycet is an ingredient in 1 perfume formula and 1 accord in the Formula & Accord Library.

RUŌOD House Originals

Original compositions by RUŌOD House.

• Frost Herb Accord

  RUŌOD House Accord

• Glacier Bottle

  RUŌOD House Original

Further reading

• Aromatic Notes in Perfumery: Lavender, Sage, Rosemary and Mint

  The aromatic family for formulators: lavender, lavandin and spike, clary sage, rosemary, mint and basil — chemistry, chemotypes and EU allergen status.

Questions about Clarycet

Sources

• PubChem — compound 57483300, checked 19 October 2026.
• PubChem — GHS classification (the ECHA C&L Inventory notifications and any harmonised EU entry), read 26 October 2026.
• The Good Scents Company — Clarycet (with IFF's description) — odour database.
• Perflavory (The Good Scents Company) — Clarycet — odour database.
• The Scent Base — Clarycet — published perfumery reference.
• Olfactory profile: the RUŌOD Lab team's synthesis of the published descriptions above, reviewed 20 October 2026. Evidence: more than one published description. Classification and the short description: revision 1. Descriptions of odour are judgement, not measurement.