A soft, green-floral material with a fresh rosy-citronella facet and a mild herbal undertone. The acetal moiety rounds off the sharpness of citronellal, giving a smoother, slightly leafy geranium-like character that lasts longer than the parent aldehyde.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 287.
Colorless mobile liquid.
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Green-leafy, Geranium-Rose type odor, diffusive, fresh and natural.
Used in perfumery in support of Geranium notes, particularly in better soap perfumes, etc.
Produced from Citronellol plus Methanol plus Acetaldehyde. More commonly from Citronellol plus Acetaldehyde dimethylacetal.