A soft, fatty-waxy alcohol with a mild aldehydic-green character, faintly floral and slightly oily. Rounded and unassuming in isolation, it functions more as a textural, diffusive extender than a lead note.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1341.
Colorless oily liquid.
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Relatively powerful, oily-herbaceous, in dilution sweet odor, but not nearly as floral as n-Nonylalcohol.
It is rarely used as such in perfumes or flavors, but it is mentioned in this work because of the considerable interest the perfume industry has had in the corresponding aldehyde, and, to a lesser degree, in the Acetate of this alcohol.
Produced from (many methods) e.g. from the Olefin by hydration, by chlorination of the hydrocarbon, followed by hydrolysis, by reactions involving Potassium-tertiary-Butoxide, etc.