A softer, greener take on cuminaldehyde — the sharp sweaty-cumin character is muted by the acetal protection, leaving a fresh, aromatic-spicy note with green herbal and mildly citrus-peel facets. Over time the acetal can slowly hydrolyse back toward cuminaldehyde, revealing more of the classic warm cumin-seed character.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 313.
Colorless slightly oily liquid.
Almost insoluble in water, miscible with alcohol and oils.
Mild, oily-green, herbaceous-winey odor.
Suggested for use as part of topnote bases in perfume compositions. More stable than the aldehyde, and practically free from the pungent-sharp, hydrocarbon-like notes so dominating in the aldehyde.
Produced from Cuminaldehyde plus Methanol with a condensing catalyst.