A macrocyclic musk lactone with the warm, skin-like ambrette character — soft, sweet-musky and slightly waxy, with a subtle animalic-floral nuance. Rounder and more animalic than the iso-E-type musks, giving a natural ambrette-seed feel to bases.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 55.
Colorless oily liquid.
Faint, musky odor, weaker than Ambrettolide.
Probably not used in perfumery and, or flavor work.
Produced from 16-Hydroxy-4-hexadecenoic acid by lactonization.