Ethyl amyl ketone (3-octanone / octan-3-one) has a fresh, sweet-herbal ketonic character with a green, slightly fruity nuance and a distinct fatty-mushroom facet. On dryout it leans waxy and mildly earthy, reminiscent of crushed leaves and buttery mushrooms.AI · claude-opus-4-7
Other ingredients whose composition declares this material as a constituent. The percentage shown is the supplier-declared concentration in that parent.
| Ingredient | % | Range |
|---|---|---|
| Pineapple Supreme | — | 5–10% |
| Lavender Oil | — | 1–5% |
Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 468.
It is a colorless liquid.
Slightly soluble in water.
Its odor is more flat-chemical, not as sweet-oily or herbaceous.
Finds use in perfume compositions and in particular reconstruction of essential oils, mainly Lavender oil and Lavandin oil. It introduces great power and radiance in the sweet-herbaceous notes, and supports the buttery-earthy, characteristic topnotes of these oils.
The ketone is used in flavor compositions for imitation Cheese, Peach, Coffee, in spice blends and Citrus complexes, etc. Concentration in the finished product will normally be about 3 to 10 ppm.
1) by heating Propionic and Caproic acids over Thorium oxide, 2) by oxidation of Ethyl-n-amyl carbinol (3-Octanol).