A soft, powdery iris-woody material with a warm violet-floral facet. Smoother and slightly sweeter than alpha-irone itself, with a creamy suede-like undertone and gentle woody drydown reminiscent of orris butter.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 389.
Almost colorless oily liquid.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
From an odor point of view, they are rather disappointing, being weaker or milder than alpha-lonone and resembling that ketone in character.
They were developed in an attempt to find more stable versions of the Irone theme, but they do not seem to distinguish themselves with greater stability.
Produced from alpha-Irone by hydrogenation in presence of Raney-nickel catalyst.