A very mild, clean aliphatic ether with a soft waxy-fresh character and almost neutral profile. Used more as a solvent/diluent and diffusive carrier than a true odorant, it lends an airy transparency to blends without imposing much of its own smell.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 376.
Colorless liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Peculiar fatty 'wet wool' odor, with notes often described as 'metallic'.
Apart from occasional use in the reconstruction of certain essential oils, etc. (artificial Costus, etc.), this ether is of little or no value to the creative perfumer.
Produced by dehydration of n-Heptanol.