A soft, creamy lactone with a rich coconut-milk character and a waxy, slightly fatty facet. Compared to gamma-decalactone it feels more rounded and less fruity, leaning into a smooth dairy-coconut sweetness that persists as a warm, powdery-milky drydown.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 682.
Almost colorless oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Fatty, green-musky or slightly animal-heavy odor. Overall not as pleasant as the n-Hexyl lactone.
This Iactone has found some use in perfumery as a modifier for Ambre-like notes, a mildly animal fixative, and a soft background odorant in various fragrance types, mostly the non-floral ones.
Produced from iso-Hexylmalonic ester plus Ethylene oxide.