Valerophenone has a warm, sweet floral-balsamic odor with creamy, slightly powdery and waxy facets. It carries a soft ketonic character reminiscent of acetophenone but rounder and less sharp, with hints of hawthorn and orange-blossom. Useful as a soft floral modifier and diffusive supporting note.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1370.
Colorless oily liquid, solidifying in the cold.
Insoluble in water, miscible with alcohol and oils.
Fresh-fruity, also sweet and discretely floral odor of moderate tenacity.
Sweet-fruity taste with a herbaceous note in concentrations lower than 20 ppm. The taste becomes rather unnatural-perfumey at concentrations higher than 100 ppm.
The title ketone has been suggested for use in perfume compositions, and it has some effect upon fruity-floral fragrance types, although its direct odor contribution is not very great.
The title ketone is occasionally used in imitation Strawberry, Peach, Cherry and other fruit flavors, but the author finds that the effect is not nearly as interesting as that of the remotely related, higher homologue.
1) by reduction of Butyl phenyl carbinol. 2) from Benzonitrile and Butyl magnesium chloride, followed by hydration.