A soft, sweet macrocyclic musk with a warm, slightly waxy character reminiscent of ambrette seed but rounder and less fatty than ambrettolide itself. Develops a gentle powdery-skin facet with excellent persistence and diffusive warmth.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 378.
Opaque crystalline mass, melting at 36°C to a viscous or oily colorless liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Typical musky, sweet odor of great tenacity and fixative power.
DHA finds still some application in perfume compositions as a fixative with clean musky, slightly animal and floral undertones, and excellent performance in alcoholic solutions, and on the human skin. It may support delicate floral notes as well as typical Ambre notes or discrete Civet/animal tones, and it blends excellently with the purest Methylionones, Vetiver derivatives and aldehyde blends.
This chemical finds occasional use in flavor compositions, but the author is of the opinion that Ambrettolide and Cyclopentadecanolide are far superior for this purpose (mellowing and rounding-off).
1) from Cyclohexadecanone with Caro’s acid (H2SO4) followed by hydrogenation. 2) by Cyclization of omega-Hexadecanoic acid.