A pungent, fatty carboxylic acid with a sour, rancid-waxy character reminiscent of goat, stale butter, and unwashed skin. In extreme dilution it lends creamy, sebaceous, dairy-like nuance useful in reconstitutions of cheese, coconut, and animalic accords, but it is aggressively unpleasant neat.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Other ingredients whose composition declares this material as a constituent. The percentage shown is the supplier-declared concentration in that parent.
| Ingredient | % | Range |
|---|---|---|
| OAKWOOD BASE (VENTOS) | — | 1–10% |
Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 347.
Colorless needles or translucent crystalline mass.
0.015% soluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Rather unpleasant, sour-fatty, rancid odor.
Used in flavor compositions, mainly in imitation Butter, Cheese, Coconut, Fruit, Liqueur, Rum, Whisky, etc.
Finds very little, if any, use in perfume compositions, perhaps occasionally in the reconstruction of certain essential oils.
Produced by oxidation of Decanol (obtained from Coconut oil or otherwise).