A powerful floral-green aldehydic material with a strong hyacinth character, backed by lilac and mimosa nuances. Slightly sweet and powdery with a leafy green facet, it feels crisp and diffusive on the blotter with a mildly waxy floral drydown.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 213.
Colorless oily or slightly liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Pleasant, floral-green odor with soft-woody or green-bark-woody undertones.
This aldehyde has found a little use in perfumery, more in the floral fragrance types, not so much in the green topnote bases.
Produced from numerous methods, e.g., from para-tertiary-butyl toluene via the substituted benzaldehyde, glycidic ester, and saponification to the title aldehyde.