A rich, creamy coconut-lactone with a fatty, waxy character reminiscent of warm milk and coconut flesh. Long-lasting and softly sweet, with a slightly oily, buttery undertone that gives body to tropical, gourmand, and suntan-lotion accords.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1029.
Colorless, slightly viscous liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Weak, fatty-grassy oily odor with mildly musky undertone and excellent tenacity.
This lactone is generally considered too weak to be of interest to the perfumer, and its odor type not sufficiently pleasant or versatile to encourage further experiments.
1) from Nonyl ethylene oxide with Sodio-malonate ester. 2) by lactonization of gamma-Hydroxy tridecanoic acid.