A soft lactonic material with a nutty, fatty character and a distinct herbaceous-celery facet. Less creamy-coconut than the classic gamma-lactones; drier and greener, with a mild oily-buttery undertone.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 40.
Colorless or faintly yellowish oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, miscible with alcohol and essential oils, poorly soluble in propylene glycol.
Musky-herbaceous, heavy odor, reminiscent of cumin, angelica, mintleaf.
The flavor is rather unpleasant, “perfumey” and unnatural.
This material could find use in perfumery as a modifier for Heptalactone and Octalactone, in combination with Coumarin for herbaceous notes, as a sweetener in Citrus fragrances, etc.
Produced from Allyl malonic ester and Ethylene oxide