A rich, creamy lactone with a pronounced coconut-milk character overlaid on soft waxy-fatty warmth. Develops a smooth, slightly powdery sweetness reminiscent of gamma-nonalactone but heavier and more buttery, with subtle oily-tropical facets.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 630.
Pale straw-colored or almost colorless viscous liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils, poorly soluble in propylene glycol.
Sweet fruity, peach-like and musky odor, yet overall fresher, not as heavy as the gamma-isomer.
Sweet and fruity taste, yet somewhat more animal than that of the gamma-isomer.
It could undoubtedly find use in perfumes and flavors as a modifier for the conventional 'Peach Aldehyde'.
Produced from Several methods, e.g. from heptyl malonic ester and ethylene oxide.