A soft, natural-smelling floral-herbal note with a distinctly lavender character but rounder, sweeter and less camphoraceous than linalool. It reads as fresh lavender heart with subtle green-woody undertones and a mild rosy facet.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 758.
Colorless oily liquid.
Very slightly soluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Oily-herbaceous, warm-rosy odor reminiscent of Geraniol and with a slightly spicy note.
This alcohol has found use in artificial Lavender oils, Lavandin, Bergamot, Clary Sage, etc.
1) from Isoprene hydrobromide plus Sodium iso-propylidene malonic ester via Lavandulic acid. 2) from Methylheptenone plus Formaldehyde in a Prins’ reaction followed by a Methyl Grignard reaction or a pyrolysis.