# Delta Octalactone

Source: https://dupehacking.com/ingredients/delta-octalactone
CAS: 698-76-0



Delta octalactone captures the smell of real coconut flesh more faithfully than its gamma counterpart. The character is soft, creamy, and milky, with peach-apricot facets and a faint tonka-like sweetness. Where gamma octalactone can veer toward spicy and herbaceous, this stays purely tropical and gentle. That 400-hour blotter life is remarkable for a material that smells this soft. It anchors compositions invisibly, contributing creaminess long after brighter materials have faded. In gourmand fragrances it provides the milky-coconut base that vanillin and ethyl maltol need to lean against. In white florals it supplies the creamy tropical undertone found naturally in gardenia and tiare. Delta… — Fraterworks

## How the catalogue uses it
- Appears in 6 formulas.
- Dose: 0.14% to 52.33%, average 9.08%.
- Most at home in: Oriental Floral, Leathery, Oriental Woody.
- Usually weighed alongside: Beta Ionone, Amber Xtreme, Veramoss, Ambroxan, Ethyl Vanillin, Iso E Super.


## Citing this
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