Trans-decahydro-beta-naphthol is a soft, dry woody-ambery aroma chemical with a subtle musky and slightly animalic warmth. It has a smooth, rounded character reminiscent of a mild ambrox/cedar hybrid, without sharpness. Acts as a quiet fixative that lends body and warmth to woody-amber accords.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 340.
Colorless viscous liquid, solidifying in the cold to an opaque mass.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Mild, sweet, slightly camphoraceous-woody, also warm and mildly spicy odor of fair tenacity.
This alcohol has been used, and is still used on a modest scale, in perfume compositions, mostly in connection with woody and camphoraceous fragrance types, including the Ionones, Cyclohexyl derivatives, etc.
Produced by catalytic hydrogenation of derivate Naphthol. The reaction yields a mixture of cise and trans-isomers, but the perfumers generally prefer the trans-isomer, or a material primarily consisting of that isomer.