Dry, woody-violet with a warm, slightly cedarwood-like facet. Less sweet and more austere than alpha-ionone, with a raspberry-tinged fruitiness underneath and a soft, powdery orris nuance emerging over time.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 743.
Almost colorless or very pale straw-colored oily liquid.
Very slightly soluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils, poorly soluble in propylene glycol.
Warm, woody, somewhat dry odor with a fruity undertone.
The taste is less sweet, more perfumey and more fruity than that of alpha-Ionone, quite powerful, and not pleasant beyond 10 ppm unless other flavor materials are present.
Beta-lonone is used in perfumery although not to the same extent as alpha-lonone. It finds its way more into fragrances rich in woody notes, including those employing newer derivatives of cyclohexanol. It is also more widely used in lipstick fragrances on account of its compatibility with fruity fragrance materials, particularly raspberry chemicals.
Beta-lonone is also used in flavor compositions for imitation berry (raspberry, loganberry, strawberry, cherry), grape, muscatel, nut and fruit complexes, pistachio, pineapple, in floral complexes and liqueur flavors. It is used in its highest concentrations in licorice candy and in chewing gum. Normal concentrations are 1 to 10 ppm in the finished product, and up to 100 ppm in chewing gum.