Coconut | Creamy | Waxy | Sweet | Buttery | Oily
A widely used, powerful lactone which is reminiscent of dessicated coconut. Its field of application reaches from the finest luxury perfumes to inexpensive masking odors, from Gardenia flower bases to Coconut candy flavors, etc. Its intense sweetness and tenacity is often utilized along with that of Undecanolide (Aldehyde C-14) in Gardenia, Tuberose, Honeysuckle, Stephanotis, Plumeria, Jasmine and many other heavy floral varieties.
Other name: gamma-nonalactone, nonano-1,4-lactone, 5-pentyloxolan-2-one
Brand: Ambrosial - Fragrances of Heaven
Product Code: AMB-PI-GANO
CAS Number: 104-61-0
Molecular Weight: 156.22492000
Formula: C9 H16 O2
Appearance: colorless to pale yellow clear oily liquid (est)
Flash Point: 235.00 °F. TCC ( 113.00 °C. )
Shelf Life: 24.00 month(s) or longer if stored properly.
Soluble in:
benzyl alcohol
dipropylene glycol
ethyl alcohol, 1:2 in 60% alcohol
ethyl alcohol, 1:5 in 50% alcohol
fixed oils
paraffin oil
propylene glycol
water, 1201 mg/L @ 25 °C (est)
Stability:
cream
detergent
hair spray
lipstick
lotion
non-discoloring in most media
powder
soap
Odor Strength: medium
Substantivity: 309 hour(s) at 100.00 %
Odor Description: at 100.00 %. coconut creamy waxy sweet buttery oily