A mild, diffusive floral-green material with a soft almond-benzaldehyde character wrapped in a slightly solvent-like, glycolic smoothness. Less sharp than free benzaldehyde — the acetal form softens the bitter-almond facet into something rounder, greener and more transparent, with a faint balsamic undertone.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 122.
Colorless or very pale straw-colored oily liquid.
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Mild-herbaceous, sweet and floral odor. The odor varies considerably with the age of the material; and samples from different suppliers have shown quite different odor characteristics.
The title acetal will lend some of the more valuable and interesting parts of the Jasmin fragrance, some of the herbaceous notes which cannot be supplied by Amylcinnamic aldehyde, but the acetal lacks the power and versatility of ACA.
Produced by condensation of Benzaldehyde with Ethyleneglycol monobutylether, commercially known as 'Butyl cellosolve'.