A pungent, ketonic solvent-like odor reminiscent of acetone with a faint minty-camphoraceous edge. Sharp and penetrating on first sniff, quickly thinning to a slightly sweet, green undertone. Rarely used as a fragrance note in its own right — more often a chemical intermediate or trace constituent.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 336.
Colorless oily liquid.
Soluble in water, miscible with alcohol and oils.
Diffusive, gassy, woody, musty odor. Generally described as unpleasant 'industrial'.
Rarely used as such, except occasionally as part of masking odors for industrial purposes.
Produced by dry distillation of adipic acid in presence of metal catalyst.