A soft woody-floral material with a clean, slightly musky character. Reminiscent of muguet-like florals set against a pale cyclohexyl wood base, with a smooth, diffusive quality that feels laundered and skin-close. Not sharp or terpenic — rather rounded and blending.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 845.
Colorless liquid. Solidifies in the cold.
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Semi-sweet, woody-rosy odor of moderate tenacity.
This alcohol is mentioned as one example of a series of chemicals developed from Dipentene or Limonene, by a process later applied to other Monoterpenes, often with interesting results. It has been suggested for use in perfume compositions, mainly soap perfumes, where its stability, low cost and olfactory versatility could make the material almost generally applicable. However, the common impression is that this chemical has limited odor value and does not offer enough of interesting note or power to justify a more general use of the alcohol.
Produced by hydrogenation of the aldehyde-beta-(4-Methyl-3-cyclohexeny]l)-butyraldehyde.