A soft, warm violet-floral with a creamy woody undertone reminiscent of orris and cedar. Less sharp than methyl ionone gamma, with a rounded powdery sweetness that lingers as a discreet floral-woody base.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 894.
Almost colorless or pale straw-colored oily liquid.
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Floral and sweet-oily odor of moderate tenacity.
The subject material is also used in flavor compositions as part of imitation Raspberry and other berries, Violet and various floral types and in some fruit complexes and 'Sen-Sen' type licorice flavorings.
This Methylionone is used quite extensively in perfume compositions as a blender/modifier and background note in floral or floral-Oriental compositions, Mimosa-Cassie bases, in numerous versions of 'Quelques-fleurs' type fragrances or 'L'Origan'-types, Chypres, etc.
Produced by condensation of Methylethyl ketone with Citral, and cyclization of the resulting Pseudomethylionone. Cyclization may be carried out with Boron trifluoride or other agent.