A soft, dry cedarwood alcohol with a warm, slightly balsamic character. Rounder and less pencil-shaving-sharp than cedrene itself, adding smooth woody depth and mild fixative effect. Contributes a natural cedar-atlas nuance without harshness.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 249.
White crystals (in the pure state) or viscous liquid with considerable crystalline deposit, liquid is pale straw colored (lower grade products).
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol, miscible with perfume oils.
Generally of mild woody odor, less dry, more balsamic than the Cedrene. The odor varies with the purity, since traces of Cedrene and other impurities heavily influence the odor picture.
Used as a fixative in soaps and 'heavy-duty' perfume types.
1) by isolation from Virginia Cedarwood oil (fractions higher than Cedrene). 2) By oxidation of Cedrene via Cedrenyl acetate. By this process one can obtain either primary or secondary Cedrenol.