A macrocyclic lactone musk (pentadecanolide / Exaltolide type). Smells clean, soft and creamy-sweet with a warm skin-like musk character — rounded and slightly powdery, without any animalic edge. Excellent fixative that adds a diffuse, cottony halo to the drydown.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1284.
Colorless, slightly viscous liquid, solidifying in the cold.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Powerful, sweet-musky, mildly animal odor with considerable resemblance to the odor of Cyclopentadecanolide, and with excellent tenacity.
The title material is a very useful musk, but not yet very inexpensive.
Produced from Tetradecamethylene glycol and Butylcarbonate with Sodium, followed by decarboxylation by heat.