A rich, warm violet-floral with a distinct woody-orris facet and a soft fruity nuance reminiscent of raspberry and dried plum. Smoother, warmer and less powdery than beta-ionone, with excellent radiance and a creamy, slightly ambery drydown.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 519.
Pale straw-colored, yellowish or almost colorless oil.
Pleasant, warm-woody, powdery type odor.
This higher homologue of Methylionone finds use in perfume compositions as a modifier for the conventional isomers of Methylionone, mainly because of its slightly superior tenacity and more powdery character.
Produced by condensation of Citral with Methyl-n-propylketone, followed by cyclization with Phosphoric acid.