A sweet, soft floral aromachemical with a creamy hawthorn-like character and slight anisic-balsamic facet. Reminiscent of mimosa and heliotrope, with a powdery, almond-tinged warmth that rounds out floral accords.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 167.
Almost colorless liquid.
Insoluble in water, poorly soluble in propylene glycol, soluble in alcohol and oils.
The odor resembles that of para-Methyl acetophenone, but is somewhat milder, more refined, subdued. The character is more woody-hay-like, warm and quite tenacious.
This ketone has been suggested for use in perfume compositions to introduce herbaceous (or hay-like) notes in Mimosa, Violet, Lavender, Orris or versions of the 'New Mown Hay' type.
Produced by several methods, e.g. from Benzene, Acetyl chloride, iso-Butyl chloride (or bromide) using Aluminium chloride catalyst in a Friedel-Craft type synthesis.