Warm, woody-violet iris character with a soft powdery sweetness. Rounder and more floral-sweet than alpha-irone, with a fatty-buttery orris facet that lingers into the drydown. Elegant and creamy rather than sharp.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 747.
Colorless or almost colorless oily liquid.
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Warm, soft, woody-violet-like odor, generally considered slightly weaker and not as radiant as that of alpha-Irone.
This isomer has achieved very little interest among the creative perfumers. Its main role will probably be that of contributing notes to a mixture of Irone isomers in order to arrive at the most attractive violet-like nuances.
Produced by isolation from the volatile oil of Orris rhizome, preferably from oils in which this isomer occurs abundantly. It has also been prepared synthetically from Pseudo-ionone.