A soft, floral-woody aroma chemical with a fresh, slightly fruity character reminiscent of pine needles and rose petals. Known commercially as Verdox or Agrumex, it lends a diffusive, airy floralcy with a clean cedar-like undertone that bridges top and heart notes.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 188.
Colorless, slightly oily liquid.
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Sweet, almost “creamy ’’woody odor with a soft-floral undertone, reminiscent of Ionones, Cedarwood and Benzyl salicylate. Some descriptions include the name Ylang-Ylang, but most perfumers agree that it is primarily an Orris-type of odor.
Widely used in perfumery along with the Ionones, CedarWood products, floral and nonfloral perfume chemicals, a very versatile perfume material for soap and other low-cost fragrances, where volume is required. Generally as a blenderlmodifier in countless types of fragrances, from Pine to Rose, from woody to floral, it is one of the most successful perfume chemicals of the last few decades with respect to volume growth.
Produced by Acetylation of para-tertiary-Butylcyciohexanol (made by hydrogenation of para-tertiary-Butylphenol).