A clean, slightly camphoraceous woody-green material with a fresh cyclohexanone character. Shows a mild herbal-aromatic facet and a soft, dry woody undertone rather than any strong floral or fruity direction.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 684.
Colorless liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Most of these ketones have woody, woody-camphoraceous, sweet-camphoraceous or orris-like odors, and they perform best in combination with lonones, Cedarwood derivatives, etc. particularly for soap perfumes and other large volume preparations.
Some of these are still sold under trade names. The para-tertiary-Butyl derivatives have already found some use in perfumery, and the para-tertiary-Amyl derivative is also a commercially available perfume chemical. Several ortho-isomers are also of perfumery interest.
Produced from para-Hexyl cyclohexanol by Chromic acid oxidation. (The alcohol is obtained by hydrogenation of the corresponding phenol).