Alpha-hydrindone (1-indanone) has a warm, sweet-animalic odor with balsamic and faintly floral facets. It shows an indolic, almost jasmine-like nuance underlying a soft coumarinic warmth. Used in trace amounts to add depth and body to floral and oriental accords.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 708.
Rhombic colorless crystal needles
Slightly soluble in water, soluble in alcohol, miscible with oils
Rather weak, woody and somewhat medicinal odor with an incense-like undertone.
The material could be of academic interest for olfactory studies.
Produced by cyclization of beta-Phenylpropiolyl chloride in Benzene.