Dypnone is a viscous synthetic with a soft, balsamic-floral character reminiscent of chalcone-type materials. It has a warm, slightly powdery sweetness with faint woody and honeyed nuances, functioning largely as a fixative that rounds and prolongs floral and oriental accords.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 458.
Yellowish liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Very faint, but tenacious, sweet, slightly buttery odor.
Although this chemical is not truly a perfume or flavor material, it is briefly mentioned because it enters as an active ingredient in cosmetic preparations, and it does slightly influence the odor of a perfume added to that preparation. It acts as a sunscreening agent.
Produced by condensation of 2 Mol. Acetophenone, using Aluminium chloride as a catalyst in boiling Xylene.