Aldehyde C-18 (Gamma Nonalactone)

Aroma Chemicals

Aldehyde C-18 (Gamma Nonalactone)

Aldehyde c-18 has a creamy coconut-peach scent with milky-fruity nuances, adding sweetness, warmth, and tropical gourmand richness.

Aroma ChemicalBaseCAS: 104-61-0

Odor Strength

Medium

Odor Type

Gourmand

Functional Profile

How perfumers typically use Aldehyde C-18 (Gamma Nonalactone) in their compositions.

Accent

27 formulas

0.0%0.5%3.0%

Modulate

16 formulas

0.0%0.5%2.0%

Enhance

11 formulas

0.5%0.6%0.9%

Build

11 formulas

0.1%10.0%30.0%

Support

3 formulas

0.1%0.1%0.1%

Common Formula Contexts

Fragrance styles and categories where Aldehyde C-18 (Gamma Nonalactone) appears most often.

Floral Bouquet

16 formulas

0.0%0.7%5.5%

Complex Composition

14 formulas

0.0%6.1%30.0%

Fresh Citrus

8 formulas

0.0%1.7%10.4%

Woody Aromatic

3 formulas

0.1%1.1%3.0%

Oriental Amber

2 formulas

0.4%0.5%0.5%

TGSC Descriptions

Mosciano, Gerard P&F 17, No. 1, 41, (1992): Sweet, creamy, coconut, fatty with oily buttery nuances

Luebke, William tgsc, (1982): Coconut creamy waxy sweet buttery oily

Other Descriptions

Gamma-Nonalactone

Moellhausen: Cocoa, fruity

IFF: Coconut-like, sweet, fatty, fruity

Aldehyde C18 So-Called

Symrise: Creamy, appetizing, resembling coconut and apricot, extremely tenacious

Aldehyde C18 Coconut (Gamma-Nonalactone)

Pell Wall Perfumes: Coconut, creamy, lactonic, coumarin
According to arctander “this material is one of the most frequently used iactones in perfumes and flavors. its field of application reaches from the finest luxury perfumes to inexpensive masking doors, from gardenia flower bases to coconut candy flavors, etc. etc. its intense sweetness and tenacity is often utilized along with that of undecanolide (so-called aldehyde c-14) in gardenia, tuberose, honeysuckle, stephanotis, plumeria, jasmin and many other heavy floral types. modern fantasy perfumes with emphasis on musk and lactones may include the title material and produce unusual fixative effect of overwhelming sweetness, and novel versions of oriental fragrance types can be made with sandalwood, styrax and the tite lactone as part of the base. its power is often underestimated by the perfumer (if he has no experience as a flavorist) and the lactone will grow’ out of the perfume and unpleasantly dominate the fragrance.”