A soft, rounded lemony-citrus note with a slightly green, fruity aspect. Milder and more stable than free citral — reads as a clean, juicy lemon peel with a subtle waxy-aldehydic edge, without the sharpness or oxidative bite of citral itself.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 273.
Colorless, slightly oily liquid.
Very slightly soluble in water, soluble in alcohol, fairly soluble in propylene glycol, miscible with most perfume and flavor oils.
Mild and fresh, green-citrusy, almost vegetable-juicy odor with a pleasant, natural oily-fruity undertone.
It will introduce quite natural green-oily, 'peel' notes in lemon and lime, and it can be twisted into an orange with the proper background materials.
The acetal is used in perfume compositions, partly as a topnote ingredient in delicate floral fragrance types, and in the more modern green-fruity fragrances as a modifier to the conventional complex of aliphatic aldehyde.
Used in flavor compositions, mainly in citrus flavors along with natural oils and synthetic flavor chemicals.
Produced from (several methods) e.g. ethyl orthoformate and citral.