A rich lactonic material with a creamy coconut character reminiscent of gamma-nonalactone. Fatty, milky and slightly waxy with a soft sweet undertone that reads as suntan-lotion coconut in dilution.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1020.
Colorless or very pale straw-colored oily liquid
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils
Creamy, coconutty, delicately fruity and floral-musky odor of excellent tenacity
Creamy-nut-like taste at concentrations near 50 ppm, delicately fruity and sweet at 1 to 5 ppm
This material is one of the most frequently used lactones in perfumes and flavors. Its field of application reaches from the finest luxury perfumes to inexpensive masking odors, from Gardenia flower bases to Coconut candy flavors.
In flavors, the lactone finds even more extensive use, and often in much higher concentration. Besides Coconut, this material is used in imitation Bitter-almond, in fruit blends (fixative), berry complexes, nut variations, American Cherry flavor.
1) from Methylacrylate plus Hexanol with Di-tertiary-butylperoxide. 2) from Undecylenic acid with Malonic acid condensation. 3) from Nonenoic acid by Lactonization.