Ambiguous trade shorthand — most likely a delta-hydroxy lactone type material, reading as a soft, creamy, milky-fruity note with peach/coconut facets typical of delta-lactones. Rounded and diffusive rather than sharp, with a slightly waxy sweetness in the drydown.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 736.
Colorless liquid
Slightly soluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils
Very mild, herbaceous-haylike odor with variable amounts of rootlike or pungent notes
Suggested for use in the reconstruction of certain essential oils, and as a trace component in perfume compositions of hay- or tobaccolike character
Produced by hydrogenation of 5-Hydroxyvaleric acid