Soft, warm violet floral with a dry cedar-like woody undertone. Sweeter, rounder and more powdery than beta-ionone, with less of the sharp violet-leaf edge — reads as fluffy orris-violet drifting into blond woods.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 742.
Almost colorless or pale straw-colored to pale yellowish oily liquid.
Very slightly soluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils, slightly soluble in propylene glycol.
Warm-woody, balsamic-floral odor of deep sweetness and moderate tenacity. Its resemblance to the odor of Violet flowers is legendary.
Relatively powerful, sweet-woody taste with a fruity note.
Alpha-Ionone is used widely in perfume compositions of almost all types. It is many decades since the single floral Violet note was appreciated as a fragrance for cosmetic purposes, but Ionone has found numerous other applications. The use of Ionone in Rose bases is very common and generally well liked, and smaller amounts of Ionone are used in woody, herbaceous, floral, balsamic, piney or citrus-like fragrances.
Alpha-Ionone is also used in flavor compositions, mainly in imitation Berry compositions, Blackberry, Loganberry, Raspberry, Cherry, etc. and in Spice blends, fruit complexes (for chewing gum, etc.) Citrus flavors, floral flavors and Vanilla imitation.
1) from Citral by condensation with Acetone, followed by cyclization. 2) from Dehydrolinalool plus Ethyl acetoacetate by Carroll's synthesis to Pseudo Jonone, followed by cyclization.