Methyl hexyl ketone (2-octanone) has a sharp, fresh-fruity odor with green, herbaceous and slightly fatty-waxy facets. It reads a bit like unripe apple or pear with a soapy, ketonic edge, drying to a mild cheesy-buttery undertone.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 885.
Colorless liquid.
Insoluble in water, miscible with alcohol and oils, soluble in propylene glycol.
Pleasant, floral, but bitter-green, slightly musty-herbaceous and unripe-Apple-fruity odor of moderate to poor tenacity.
Bitter-camphoraceous taste in concentrations higher than 10 ppm.
Often used in place of Ethyl-n-amyl ketone for Lavender reinforcement, it can be used for Lavender and Lavandin with effect of increased power and diffusion.
Used in flavor compositions for imitation Apple, and in various fruit complexes, cheese flavors, etc.
1) by oxidation of secondary-Octanol, obtained from Castor oil. 2) from Heptaldehyde, obtained from Castor oil.