A soft, floral-woody aromachemical with a violet and orris facet, gently powdery and slightly sweet. Rounder and less sharp than alpha or beta ionones, with a creamy woody undertone that persists into the drydown.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1212.
Pale straw-colored or almost colorless oily liquid.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Powerful, sweet-and-dry-woody, mildly spicy and warm odor of great tenacity.
The title ketone finds some use in perfume compositions where special effects in woody, woody-floral and mossy fragrance types are wanted.
Produced by condensation of Citral with Methyl ethyl ketone.