A soft, diffusive green-woody sesquiterpene with a fresh, slightly waxy character. Mild and airy with a subtle herbal-floral nuance, adding lift and natural greenness to blends without a sharp edge.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 565.
Colorless mobile liquid.
Insoluble in water, poorly soluble in alcohol, soluble in most perfume oils.
Very mild, sweet and warm, rather nondescript odor of good tenacity.
Apart from some possible use in the reconstruction of certain essential oils, there is, to the author's knowledge, very little, if any, use for this sesquiterpene in perfumery as such.
1) by dehydration of Farnesol by heat with a dehydrating agent. 2) from Nerolidol by heat with Acetic anhydride.