Musk ketone replacer:

Tonalid 10-25%

Galaxolide 10-25%

Benzyl benzoate 1-10%

White Musk Accord

Ethylene Brassylate - 400

Galaxolide 50% - 380

Velvione - 100

Thibetolide (Exaltolide) - 100

Ambrettolide 20

Cosmone smells closest to Nitromusks with the same animalic powdery quality; very old lady!

Musk mix
All compounds were blended at 20%

velvione 13
cashmeran 3
ambretollide 8
exaltolide pentadecanolide 7
galaxolide 8
tonalide 8
ethylene brassylate 9
musk ambrette 13
Indian red musk* 1
cosmone 6
muscone 6
celestolide 4

Prefixer for alcohol

Traditionally ambergris tincture was often used along with musk and sometimes other things
to pre-condition the alcohol. The objective of this wasnt so much adding fixation as softening
the alcohol smell.

To achieve this with modern materials I would be looking at things such as Exaltone, Exaltolide,
Ambrettolide and Ambrofix, possibly other items as well, but at any rate not exceeding 0.1% in
total, added to your base alcohol. It is surprising what tiny amounts of these sorts of things can
do.

Aside from the notes mentioned there (costus, opoponax and ambrette seed, which are the
closes to musk in character), there are other notes which can be used in musk compounds to
impart either a more woody/animalic/floral musky characteristics, such as:

Agarwood (woody and animalic, some are more woody, others are more animalic)

Pastchouli (woody)

Vetiver (woody, earthy)

Spikenard (earthy, woody)

Snakeroot (earthy, animalic) - this is difficult to find

Angelica root (earthy)

Tobacco (animalic, woody)