A rich, creamy lactone with a pronounced coconut and fatty-milky character. Smooth and slightly waxy in the drydown, with a soft sweetness reminiscent of dairy and tropical fruit skins. Rounder and heavier than gamma-nonalactone, less peachy and more coconut-cream.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 352.
Colorless viscous oil.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol, miscible with oils.
Weak, oily, sweet-fatty, remotely fruity and very tenacious odor.
Has been suggested as a modifier-fixative for perfume compositions, but has not succeeded in competition with the more powerful and characteristic smelling lactones.
Produced from decyl ethylene oxide and sodio-malonic ester. Epoxydecane is made from decane and perbenzoic acid in chloroform solution.