Benzoyl acetone (1-phenyl-1,3-butanedione) has a sweet, warm balsamic odor with hay-like, coumarin-tinged facets and a soft powdery-floral character reminiscent of new-mown grass and tobacco. It develops a mildly almond/anisic nuance as it dries down.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 127.
White prismatic crystals.
Soluble in hot water, soluble in cold alcohol and oils.
Faint, but very tenacious balsamic-sweet, vanilla-like odor of 'Oriental' fragrance type. Also described as Tolu-balsam-like.
Used in perfume compositions for Oriental fragrances, Ambre bases, Leather bases, etc.
Produced from Acetophenone plus Ethylacetate plus Sodium ethoxide, or directly by acetylation of Acetophenone.