Abstract: A process is described for providing clear extended compositions of synthetic and/or natural essential oils and/or perfumery chemicals which comprises admixing a composition of a synthetic and/or natural essential oil and/or perfumery chemical and an extender material miscible with said synthetic and/or natural essential oil and/or perfumery chemical which does not appreciably alter the aroma of the synthetic and/or natural essential oil and/or perfumery chemical insofar as its quality or strength is concerned, the proportion of synthetic and/or natural essential oil and/or perfumery chemical in extender material being from about 70% up to about 99%, said extender material being one or more "dimerization" (or "coupling") products of one or more terpenes which are monocyclic and have two carbon-carbon double bonds or which are bicyclic and have one carbon-carbon double bond or one or more hydrogenated derivatives thereof or mixtures of same.

Abstract: A process is described for providing clear extended compositions of essential oils which comprises a composition of an essential oil and an extender material miscible with said essential oil which does not appreciably alter the aroma of the essential oil insofar as its quality or strength is concerned, the proportion of essential oil in extender material being from about 70% up to about 99%, said extender material being a dimerization product of an alpha methyl styrene or a methyl or other C.sub.2 -C.sub.4 lower alkyl homologue thereof or hydrogenated derivative thereof or mixture of same, having one of the generic structures: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are the same or different and each represents hydrogen or methyl or other C.sub.2 -C.sub.

Abstract: A process is described for reacting "myrac aldehyde" having the structure: ##STR1## (which structure is representative of a mixture of two compounds, one where the carboxaldehyde is in the "4" position and the other wherein the carboxaldehyde is in the "5" position) with an acid hydrating agent at a temperature of from 0.degree. up to 120.degree. C, to produce a mixture containing a major proportion of 4-(4'-methyl-4'-hydroxyamyl)-.DELTA..sup.3 -cyclohexene carboxaldehyde and a minor proportion of 3-(4'-methyl-4'-hydroxyamyl)-.DELTA..sup.3 -cyclohexene carboxaldehyde (otherwise termed "Lyral") having the structure: ##STR2## and a minor proportion of 3-(4'-methyl-4'-hydroxyamyl)-.DELTA..sup.3 -cyclohexene carboxaldehyde having the structure: ##STR3## which mixture possesses a sweet, lilac-lily aromatic odor and isolating a mixture of the two carboxaldehydes. The products produced by the aforementioned process are useful in various aspects of perfumery.