A soft, elegant iris-woody material with a warm violet-floral facet and a powdery, slightly sweet undertone. Rounder and creamier than alpha-irone, with less green sharpness and more of a suede-like orris richness.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.
Although this ketone resembles alpha-irone from an olfactory point of view, it has failed to interest the perfumers, partly because it is very unstable, partly because it seems to be difficult to produce in a pure state and consistent quality.
It is produced by hydrogenation of gamma-irone.