Santene is a light bicyclic terpene hydrocarbon with a dry, woody-camphoraceous character reminiscent of sandalwood terpenes and fresh pine needles. It has a clean, slightly rooty freshness with a subtle earthy nuance, lending airy lift to woody accords.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Colorless, mobile liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Ethereal-gassy, sweet-camphoraceous odor, in high concentration rather unpleasant, but upon dilution sweeter, less gassy, more Camphene-like, balsamic.
Apart from experimental use in artificial Sandalwood oil, as a minor component with Sandela-type chemicals, this hydrocarbon has not yet found much use in perfumery.
1) by isolation from Sandalwood oil or from various Pine needle oils. 2) synthetic from Nor-borneol. 3) By dehydration of Camphenilol. This synthesis starts from Camphene via omega-Nitrocamphene to Camphenilone, and by hydrogenation to Camphenilol.