Also known as 1-octen-3-ol or matsutake alcohol — a fresh, green mushroom-like odor with an earthy, damp, slightly fatty character. Adds a natural wet-forest nuance and lifts geranium, lavender, and melon-cucumber accords with a distinctive raw-vegetal freshness.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 879.
Colorless oily liquid.
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Powerful, fatty-fruity, oily and slightly herbaceous odor. Overall not very pleasant. Some observers find a green-earthy or fungoid note.
This unsaturated alcohol has found a little use in perfume compositions mainly for reinforcing Lavender notes for soap use and for other purposes where power is particularly called for.