Beta-Ionone Epoxide has a soft violet-woody character reminiscent of beta-ionone but drier and more earthy, with a subtle iris/orris facet. It reads as a muted, slightly powdery floral-woody note lacking the fruity brightness of the parent ionone.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 744.
Pale yellowish or almost whitish crystalline mass or white crystals.
Intensely sweet, fruity-woody odor of great volume and excellent tenacity, suggestive of precious woods with floral background notes and a similarity to Raspberry.
It could find use in flavor compositions, particularly Raspberry and Strawberry imitations, but the material is not yet named as G.R.A.S. in the official American lists.
The title material finds some use in compositions, particularly in soaps and detergents, where its greater stability gives it advantage over the conventional Ionones. It blends excellently with Ambregris-chemicals, Musks, Labdanum, Sandalwood materials, Cinnamic alcohol (for 'powdery notes'), etc. and it gives very interesting variations in the 'Origan' type fragrances, known for their high Jonone content with iso-Eugenol, etc.
Produced from Epoxy-citral, which is derived from Citral by oxidation with Hydrogen peroxide.