Dibenzyl ketone (1,3-diphenylacetone) has a soft, sweet-balsamic odor with rosy-floral and mildly powdery facets. It is quiet and rounded rather than sharp, with a faintly geranium-like nuance and good persistence on the blotter.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 361.
White crystals or colorless crystalline mass.
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils, poorly in Propylene glycol.
Sweet, but rather faint, fruity-almondy odor of considerable tenacity.
Occasionally used as a trace ingredient in floral perfume compositions, Fougére types, New Mown Hay, etc. where it can act as a modifier for Coumarin, making its odor softer.
Used in fruit flavor compositions, and in imitation Honey, Nut, etc. — mostly in traces only.
Produced by Friedel-Craft’s synthesis from Toluene and Phenylacetylchloride (in presence of Aluminium chloride).