A rich violet-orris floral with a soft woody backbone, reminiscent of the classic methyl ionone family but with added depth and a slightly fruity, warm nuance. Powdery and elegant, with a creamy iris-like character that lingers into a soft woody dry-down.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1211.
Pale straw-colored, oily liquid.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Powerful and very tenacious, floral-woody and powdery odor.
The subject material is used indirectly (as part of a specialty) in finer perfumes, where certain Methylionone types are employed at relatively high concentration.
Produced by condensation of Citral with Methyl-iso-butylketone. The process leads to Methyl ethyl ionones after cyclization of the condensation product.