A soft, creamy lactone with a milky-coconut character and a subtle nutty, hay-like nuance. Warm and slightly powdery, it lends a smooth dairy-sweet roundness reminiscent of butterlike or tonka-adjacent facets, without the sharp fruity edge of gamma-decalactone.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1322.
Colorless or pale straw-colored, viscous liquid.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Very faint, but very persistent sweet-balsamic, warm odor.
Neither this material nor several of its lower homologues are of any substantial interest to the creative perfumer. Their odor value is negligible, and their odor character of little interest.
Produced from (several methods) e.g. Tolyl-malonic ester and Ethylene oxide.