This is Iso E Super's close relative — a soft, smooth woody-ambery aromachemical with a subtle fruity-floral facet. It smells clean and diffusive, with a velvety cedar-like character and a faint musky undertone that blends transparently into other notes.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 883.
White crystalline material.
Warm, mild, but tenacious musky-orrislike odor. The camphoraceous notes so often encountered in Cyclohexanone derivatives are pleasantly subdued and generally accepted as Orris-like rather than Camphor-like.
The subject ketone may find use in novel and masculine type soap fragrances, room sprays, etc. should it ever become commercially available at a sufficiently attractive price.
Produced by hydrogenation of para-iso-Hexyl-ortho-cresol to the secondary alcohol, which is subsequently oxidized to the ketone. Two isomers are produced similarly, and separation of the isomers depends partly upon the composition of the original Cresol.