A light, ethereal solvent-like odor with a faint sweet fruity nuance reminiscent of acetone softened by an alcoholic touch. Flashes off very quickly with little tenacity, leaving only a mild sweet-ethereal impression. Primarily used as a protected form of acetone/solvent carrier rather than as a featured note.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 21.
Soluble in alcohol, miscible with essential oils and perfume chemicals.
Ethereal odor.
Rarely used in perfumes for ethereal top-notes and “alcohol-like” effects.
Presumably not used in flavors.
Produced synthetically via orthoformic ester or vinyl ether. Also from formiminomethyl-ether hydrochloride.