A soft, refined iris-woody note with a warm violet character. Less powdery and more woody-fruity than alpha-irone, with a gentle sweetness and a rounded, creamy orris facet. Adds elegance and a natural iris-butter feel to floral and woody compositions.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 390.
Almost colorless oily liquid.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Dry and rather hard odor, generally considered undesirable, yet reminiscent of beta-Irone in overall type.
This ketone has been manufactured on a very limited scale, but has, to the author's knowledge, not found any significant application in perfumery.
Produced by hydrogenation of beta-Irone. The reaction mixture contains not only the title material, but also Tetrahydro irones and related materials.