Warm, slightly smoky phenolic ketone with a coumarin-like sweetness reminiscent of dried hay, tobacco leaf and a whisper of clove. Sits in the heart with a soft leathery-balsamic drydown; useful as a bridging note between spicy, tobacco and amber accords.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 892.
White crystals.
Slightly soluble in water, soluble in alcohol.
Warm floral-herbaceous odor, suggestive of certain notes of Jasmin.
This ketone is used in perfume compositions for its warm-floral effect and herbaceous character, useful in Jasmin, Tuberose, Chypres, Oriental fragrance types, etc.
Produced by Darzen’s type synthesis from ortho-Cresylacetate by heating with Aluminum chloride.