A soft, waxy-musky lactone with a creamy, slightly fatty character reminiscent of coconut and warm skin. The long alkyl chain gives it a fixative, musk-like quality rather than the bright fruity aspect of shorter-chain gamma-lactones, drying down to a smooth, powdery sweetness.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 455.
Colorless to very pale straw-colored oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol, miscible with oils. Poorly soluble in propylene glycol, almost insoluble in glycerin.
Musky, coconut-like, fatty odor of great tenacity.
Finds a little use in perfume compositions as a modifier for Undecanolide in modem musky-fruity fragrance types, etc.