Isophorone has a sharp, penetrating solvent-like odor with camphoraceous and faintly minty facets. It smells cold, chemical, and slightly sweet-green — reminiscent of peppermint mixed with acetone. Not commonly used in fine fragrance; more industrial in character.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1140.
Colorless liquid. The commercial material is often pale straw-colored.
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Pungent, sweet-camphoraceous, heavy odor of poor tenacity. In extreme dilution, the odor is less camphor-like, more honey-like and sweet, yet heavy.
This ketone, manufactured on a very large scale in the Petrochemical industry, is occasionally used in perfumery as a masking agent or odorant with special effects.
Produced from Mesityloxide and Ethylacetoacetate by condensation, followed by hydrolysis and decarboxylation.