A soft, diffusive violet-floral with a fruity-woody undertone reminiscent of pineapple and orris. Warmer and slightly more tropical than alpha-ionone, with a smooth cedar-like drydown.AI · claude-opus-4-7
Other ingredients whose composition declares this material as a constituent. The percentage shown is the supplier-declared concentration in that parent.
| Ingredient | % | Range |
|---|---|---|
| Poivre Fort | — | 1–5% |
| Prunol SP | — | 1–5% |
Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 47.
Colorless or very pale yellowish oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and perfume and flavor materials, poorly soluble in propylene glycol.
Oily-sweet, slightly flowery, but also fruity, woody and bark-like green odor of considerable tenacity.
Used in flavors, in traces for imitation raspberry and pineapple.
Useful in perfume compositions as a modifier for ionones and methylionones, in modern-aldehydic creations, in perfumes with fruity-aldehydic topnotes, in combinations with vetiver or woody-floral perfume materials.
Produced from citral by condensation with allyl acetone, followed by cyclization.