A light, volatile aliphatic hydrocarbon solvent with a faint gasoline-like, slightly sweet petrol odor. Essentially non-fragrant in perfumery use — flashes off quickly leaving little to no residual smell.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 621.
Colorless mobile liquid.
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol (up to equal parts) miscible with most oils.
Sweet-ethereal, diffusive odor of poor tenacity.
Although this hydrocarbon cannot be classified as a perfume or flavor material, it may occur as a trace component in perfume and flavor raw materials, extracted from natural materials using e. g. Heptane as a solvent.
Accordingly it may be used as a synthetic flavoring adjuvant.
Produced by isolation from Petroleum.