A light, volatile ketal with a fresh, slightly fruity-green ethereal character reminiscent of acetone softened by a mild sweetness. Flashes off quickly, leaving a faint clean impression. Often used as a masking or lift note rather than a featured material.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 21.
Colorless liquid.
Soluble in alcohol, miscible with essential oils and perfume chemicals.
Ethereal-camphorlike odor.
Occasionally used in perfumes to introduce diffusive topnotes in herbaceous-camphoraceous blends (Lavandin-Rosemary, etc.).
Probably not used in flavors.
Produced by synthesis via orthoformic ester, or via vinyl ether, or via formimino ethyl ether hydrochloride.