A key odorant of vetiver oil, isolating the deep woody-rooty facet of the natural. Dry, earthy and slightly smoky with a resinous vetiver character, without the greener top notes of the whole oil.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1385.
Pale yellowish or off-white crystals.
Alpha-Vetivone has a powerful, warm, pleasant, Orris-Vetiver-Ambre-like odor of outstanding tenacity. beta-Vetivone has a more balsamic-floral, sweet, but very mild or relatively weak odor, although also of excellent tenacity.