A soft, musky-floral aroma chemical with a warm waxy character and subtle animalic-powdery undertones. Reminiscent of clean skin and creamy white florals, with a persistent, slightly sweet drydown.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 306.
Colorless oily liquid, solidifying in the cold.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Mild, sweet-herbaceous, slightly green and oily odor with variable amounts of cresylic notes, most conceivably derived from impurities.
This ketone has been used in perfume compositions of the heavy-floral type, also in Violet and Narcisse bases. It blends well with the Ionones and other Violet materials, with Vetiver and Oakmoss, and with many floral chemicals.
1) by oxidation of para-Octyl toluene. 2) from para-Cresyl octoate by heating with Aluminium chloride in a so-called Fries rearrangement.