A citronella-inflected cyclopentanone with a fresh, slightly woody-floral character. Opens green and lemony with a rosy-geranium facet from the citronellidene side chain, drying down to a soft, mildly musky-woody ketone tone.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 280.
Colorless liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol, miscible with perfume oils.
Powerful weedy-camphoraceous-minty odor with a herbaceous undertone, including some sweetness, but not enough to call the material overall pleasant smelling.
Has been suggested for use in perfume compositions, but could possibly only find some use in artificial essential oils, e.g. Geranium.
Produced by condensation of Citronellal with Cyclopentanone.