Gamma Dodecalactone

Aroma Chemicals

Gamma Dodecalactone

Gamma dodecalactone smells like a fruity peach-apricot aroma with fatty, peachy, and slightly musky notes, but is even fattier than undecanolide.

Aroma ChemicalMiddleCAS: 2305-05-7

Odor Strength

Medium

Odor Type

Fruity

PeachApricot

Functional Profile

How perfumers typically use Gamma Dodecalactone in their compositions.

Build

2 formulas

0.5%23.9%47.2%

Common Formula Contexts

Fragrance styles and categories where Gamma Dodecalactone appears most often.

Complex Composition

2 formulas

0.5%23.9%47.2%

TGSC Descriptions

Luebke, William tgsc, (1996): Fatty peach sweet metallic fruity

Other Descriptions

Gamma-Dodecalactone

IFF: Sweet, fruity, musky, peach, pear

Pell Wall Perfumes: Fruity-peach, creamy, sweet
Arctander recommends it for fruity-fatty topnotes and long tenacity in, for example, heavy floral fragrances and says: “it is also used in combination with newer synthetic musks to produce exceptional tenacity and lasting sweetness in powdery and in floral types.”