Ambrettolide

CAS Number:7779-50-2
Appearance: colorless to pale yellow clear liquid (est)
Assay: 98.00 to 100.00
Food Chemicals Codex Listed: No
Specific Gravity: 0.95600 @ 25.00 °C.
Refractive Index: 1.47900 @ 20.00 °C.
Boiling Point: 185.00 to 190.00 °C. @ 16.00 mm Hg
Flash Point: > 212.00 °F. TCC ( > 100.00 °C. )
logP (o/w): 5.429 (est)

Odor Profile: Musky, Ambrette seed, Powerful, Warm, Fruity.

Arctander has this to say .one of the finest fixatives among the distinguished group of those showing a synergistic and amplifying effect upon perfumes and flavors. At the same time it increases the diffusiveness of fragrances in which it is incorporated. Its fixative effect is easily recognized by the fact that solutions of 0.01% Ambrettolide (or even less) in slightly diluted alcohol show practically no odor of alcohol, only a faint, floral-musky, sweet and pleasant odor of the lactone. Ambrettolide is particularly useful in fragrance types of delicately floral, mildly animal or Ambre-like type.