Soft, elegant violet-floral with a creamy woody undertone reminiscent of orris and cedar. Rounder, warmer and more powdery than alpha-iso-methyl ionone, with a slightly fruity nuance and excellent smoothness that lingers into the drydown.AI · claude-opus-4-7
Other ingredients whose composition declares this material as a constituent. The percentage shown is the supplier-declared concentration in that parent.
| Ingredient | % | Range |
|---|---|---|
| Prunol SP | — | 20–50% |
Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 896.
Almost colorless or slightly yellowish oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Light and warm-woody, floral and at the same time Ambregris-like odor of moderate tenacity.
The material finds limited use in flavor compositions, mainly in berry or fruit flavors, and in floral types.
This is a rather expensive, but highly desirable isomer of the Methylionones. Its mildly animal (Ambregris-like) notes have made the material particularly interesting as a base for luxury perfumes, many of which contain a high percentage of subject material.
Produced by condensation of Citral with Methyl ethyl ketone, followed by cyclization.