A powerful woody-ambery aroma chemical (known commercially as Boisambrene/Karanal-type character in some references, though decahydro-beta-naphthalaldehyde itself is a saturated bicyclic aldehyde). Presents as dry, slightly musky wood with a soft ambery warmth and faint marine-aldehydic lift. Persistent and diffusive, giving volume to woody-amber accords.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 340.
Colorless oily liquid.
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Peculiar dry, musty, powerful odor, reminiscent of certain notes in Ambergris.
Used in perfume compositions to support Ambergris-notes, natural or synthetic.
Produced from beta-Decalone with Sodium and Ethyl chloroacetate followed by saponification of the glycidate.