Acetyl isobutyryl (2,3-hexanedione or the related diketone family) has a strong buttery, creamy diacetyl-like character with a rich dairy and fatty facet. In dilution it reads as warm cultured butter, cream, and a faint cheesy nuance, useful for lactonic and gourmand effects.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 25.
Yellow oily liquid.
Slightly soluble in water, soluble in propylene glycol, ethyl alcohol and all common perfume and flavor materials.
Heavy creamy-sweet, fruity-buttery odor, often described as 'quinone-like'. Less buttery, more fruity than the normal ketone.
Frequently used in flavors for banana, butter, butterscotch, nut, rum, strawberry, etc.
Rarely, if ever, used in perfumery.
Frequently used in flavors for banana, butter, butterscotch, nut, rum, strawberry, etc.
Produced from methyl-iso-butylketone.