A soft, powdery floral with a sweet almond-cherry facet reminiscent of heliotrope and mimosa. Warm and creamy with a subtle vanillic-coumarinic undertone that lends a comforting, slightly gourmand character.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 616.
Colorless crystals or white crystalline granular material. Impure crystals may be straw-colored.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol, miscible with most perfume and flavor oils.
Intensely sweet, floral and very slightly woody-powdery odor reminiscent of the sweet-floral notes in Mimosa and Cassie. Also remotely reminiscent of Heliotrope.
The taste in dilutions below 50 ppm is sweet, somewhat fruity and 'Cherry-pit'-like. Higher concentrations tend to show a somewhat bitter taste.
It finds application in Lilac, Lily, Sweet Pea, Apple-blossom, Mimosa, Cassie, Ylang-Ylang, Heliotrope, Carnation, etc. and is particularly interesting in lipstick perfumes, also because it blends well with Ionones.
Heliotropyl acetone finds use in flavor compositions for imitation Cherry ('pit flavor') in various fruit complexes. Occasionally as a modifier in Vanilla imitation.
Produced by condensation of Heliotropine with Acetone, followed by hydrogenation in presence of a Palladium catalyst. The Acetone condensation takes place in aqueous alkaline solution.