Intensely green, sharply leafy and vegetal — like crushed fresh violet leaves with a wet, cucumber-melon coolness. Underneath sits an earthy, slightly mushroomy and tobacco-like facet that turns quietly woody and metallic as it dries down.AI · claude-opus-4-7
Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 398.
Viscous liquid, intensely dark green
Very powerful and peculiar odor, truly a green-leaf odor, but with an indisputable floral and delicate note
Finds some application, but the absolute suffers from the disadvantage of being very unstable in the presence of water
Used extensively in perfumery where its tremendous diffusion and delicate naturalness is obtainable at very low concentrations
Produced by petroleum ether extraction of the freshly harvested leaves
Restricted IFRA-standard materials typically present in this NCS at the listed concentrations.
| Constituent | CAS | Typical % |
|---|---|---|
| Benzyl Alcohol | 100-51-6 | 0.1% |