Benzyl Methyl Acetone (benzylideneacetone / 4-phenyl-3-buten-2-one) has a warm, sweet floral odor reminiscent of jasmine and orange blossom with a soft fruity-balsamic facet. It carries a slightly powdery, honeyed nuance and a rounded, waxy character on the dryout.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 145.
Colorless oily liquid.
Very slightly soluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Sweet, fruity-floral, slightly balsamic odor of moderate tenacity.
This ketone, mostly sold under various trade names, has found very little use in perfumes. Many newer, related materials have been much more successful, particularly those containing a hydroxyl- or a methoxy-radicle in the ring, preferably in the para-position. The subject ketone blends very well with members of the Cinnamic family, with Salicylates and Coumarin. It lends sweetness to floral fragrances, sweet-woody notes in Mimosa or Cassie bases, and it rounds off the harshness of overly fruity topnotes. It also seems to improve the effect of Ethyl methyl phenyl glycidate as a fruity item.
Produced by reduction of Phenyl ethylidene acetone, which is obtained from Phenylacetaldehyde by condensation with Acetone.