A softer, more diffusive version of cinnamic aldehyde — warm cinnamon-spice character but rounded and slightly floral, with a sweet balsamic undertone. Less pungent and more stable than free cinnamaldehyde, releasing the spicy note more gradually.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 260.
Almost colorless oily liquid.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Faint, but fresh-green, slightly spicy, oily-sweet odor.
Taste is mild and oily-sweet, not nearly as sweet as the aldehyde.
Used occasionally in perfume formulations as a modifier and 'new' note in modern-aldehydic or spicy-fruity fragrance types.
1) From Cinnamic aldehyde and Formimino-ethylether hydrochloride. 2) From Cinnamic aldehyde and Ethanol with dry HCl gas.