A softer, creamier take on vanillin — sweet vanilla with a smooth balsamic warmth and slight powdery facet. Less sharp and phenolic than vanillin itself, with better tenacity and a rounder, more diffusive vanilla character.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 32.
Colorless needle-like or plate-like crystals.
Poorly soluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Mild and sweet, floral-Vanilla-like odor of good tenacity. Fresher than the odor of Vanillin, but lacks the warmth of Vanilla and Vanillin.
This material is used in spice flavor blends and in Vanilla flavor compositions as a modifier for Vanillin and related derivatives. It tends to reduce the overall power of the flavor, but also improve the total picture in 'freshening-up' the heavy aroma of Vanillin, Ethylvanillin, etc.
The material is not used in perfume compositions to any large extent.
1) from Acetic anhydride plus an alkaline salt of Vanillin. 2) by oxidation of Acetyl-iso-eugenol.