A soft, violet-floral aromachemical with a warm woody-orris character. Reminiscent of methyl ionone but generally rounder and slightly sweeter, with a powdery iris-like facet and a gentle woody drydown.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1212.
Pale straw-colored oily liquid.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Powerful, oily-woody, discretely floral odor of good tenacity.
The title ketone and its isomer serve as additives to perfume compositions in which these particularly warm-floral, discretely spicy-oily and very powerful notes are desirable, e.g. modern mossy-balsamic, Oriental-floral, or herbaceous-mossy-aldehydic types.
Produced by condensation of Citral with Methyl ethyl ketone.