A soft, creamy lactone with a fatty-waxy fruitiness reminiscent of coconut cream and ripe peach skin. Milder and more musky-tenacious than the shorter gamma/delta lactones, it dries down to a warm, slightly powdery skin-musk facet.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1329.
Colorless, viscous oil.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Soft, creamy, mildly coconutty and discretely musky odor (non-animal) of excellent tenacity.
Creamy, milky Coconut-like taste in concentrations lower than 5 ppm. Pleasant level is near 2 ppm. Concentrations higher than 20 ppm seem to produce bitter taste.
As a new and versatile modifier for the conventional Nonanolide/Undecanolide company in Gardenia and Tuberose, it can introduce the soft and sweet floral undertones with much more elegance, and the often dominating, fruity notes are subdued or not present.