A powerful buttery, creamy diketone (heptane-2,3-dione) with rich dairy, cheesy and slightly fruity nuances. In dilution it reads like warm butter and cream with a fatty lactonic edge; overdosed it turns sharply cheesy and rancid.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 32.
Yellowish liquid
Slightly soluble in water, miscible with alcohol, essential oils and flavor materials.
Powerful, diffusive, buttery and slightly animal, quinone-like odor, pungent and cheesy, but sweet in its oily character.
Aqueous solutions taste sweet, weak solutions are virtually odorless.
Useful in flavors for Butter, Cheese, Fruit, Nut, Rum, Raspberry, Strawberry, etc.
Produced from Butyl acetoacetate, or from Ethyl butyl ketone, or from Methyl-n-amyl-ketone. (2-Heptanone).