A soft, creamy lactone with a milky-coconut character and a subtle peachy-fruity nuance. Rounder and less sharply fatty than gamma-nonalactone, with a smooth waxy-sweet drydown that lends body to fruity and gourmand accords.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 178.
Colorless oily liquid.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and most perfume and flavor materials.
The classical odor picture: Cumin-Anise-Ambergris is rather vague, and does not really describe the material, be it pure or contaminated. Leaving out Cumin and Anise, the Ambergris note may be perceptible to most observers, while the condiment-like or spicy sweet note resembles that of Caraway, although much softer with a Coconut-like background.
This lactone has been suggested for use in perfumes and flavors, but the author is not aware of any significant use of it in such products.
Produced by many methods, e.g. from n-Butyl malonic ester plus Ethylene oxide.