Acetyl Caproyl (methyl heptenone / heptan-2-one family — commonly the trade name for methyl amyl ketone or a related ketone used as a dairy-fruity note) has a rich, creamy, slightly cheesy-buttery character with a coconut-like waxy facet. In dilution it reads as a soft dairy fruitiness that supports peach, coconut and gardenia accords.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 25.
Yellowish oily liquid.
Slightly soluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils, in Propylene glycol and Glycerin.
Powerful and sweet, oily-buttery odor with herbaceous-cheesy undertone, yet not rancid or unpleasant in dilution.
Creamy-cheesy, mildly buttery taste in dilutions near 10 ppm.
Used on a very limited scale in perfume compositions, mainly as a trace component in top note compositions, where it gives interesting effects in the presence of Civet and Phenylacetic acid, or certain Labdanum products, etc. It is also of good use in Ylang Ylang compositions and in many other flower bases.