The asymmetric unit of the title compound, C17H24O2, contains two independent mol-ecules with different conformations. The least-squares plane through the cyclohexane ring makes dihedral angles of 52.9 (5) and 81.4 (4)° with the benzene ring in the two molecules. The cyclo-hexane ring adopts a chair conformation in both mol-ecules. In the crystal, weak C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds link mol-ecules related by translation in [100] into two crystallographically independent chains.