A fresh green-fruity aroma chemical with a soft aldehydic character, reminiscent of cucumber peel, unripe melon, and crushed green leaves. The dimethyl acetal form is smoother and less pungent than the free aldehyde, giving a diffusive, watery-green top note with a mild waxy nuance.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 321.
Colorless liquid.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Damp-earthy, camphoraceous-minty, Walnut-Vetiver-Oakmoss-like, relatively powerful odor of moderate tenacity.
This acetal has a more powerful odor than the Diethylacetal and it could find use in soap perfumes of the modern woody type, including deodorant soaps, in which the perfume is often of a slightly medicated character, in line with the function of the soap.
Produced by condensation of Cyclohexane carboxaldehyde with Methanol in presence of a small amount of dry hydrogen chloride as water removing agent.