A small, pungent cyclic ketone with a sharp, solvent-like green odor. Reminiscent of a harsher cyclopentanone/cyclohexanone character with a faint minty-green edge; not a common finished-perfumery material and quite aggressive neat.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 323.
Colorless mobile liquid
Poorly soluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils
Powerful and diffusive, somewhat gassy-minty odor, often described as 'industrial' or 'chemical'
Occasionally used as part of masking odors for industrial perfumes
Produced by Chromic acid oxidation of Cyclohexene, this in turn being produced by dehydration of Cyclohexanol