Cyclohexane acetic acid has a pungent, sour-waxy odor with fatty and slightly cheesy nuances. On dry down it reveals a green, herbaceous character reminiscent of geranium leaf and a mild sweaty note. Used in trace amounts it can lend natural realism to fruity and floral accords.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 321.
Colorless crystalline mass, or white crystals.
Rather sharp-acetic odor, not very characteristic.
Sour taste, nondescript.
Occasionally used in flavor compositions, mainly for imitation Butter and fruit.
Produced from (many methods) e. g. by hydrogenation of Phenylacetic acid.