A soft, creamy lactone with a rich coconut-milk character and a fruity, peach-like nuance. It reads as smooth and slightly buttery, with a mild waxy sweetness that rounds out floral and fruity accords.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 69.
Colorless oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol, essential oils, perfume and flavor materials. Poorly soluble in propylene glycol and mineral oil.
Musky, ambregris-like odor with an oily-faty note. The main difference between this lactone and the gamma-isomer seems to be the lack of nutlike notes in the former, the muskiness and overall drier character.
This lactone, only rarely offered commercially, has found some use in flavor compositions and little - if any - in perfumes. It does not seem to offer enough of interesting or unusual notes that it can become a permanent item on the perfumer’s or flavorist’s shelf.
Produced from Ethylene oxide by iso-Amyl malonic ester synthesis.