A green, aldehydic-floral material with a distinct fresh hyacinth and leafy character. Opens sharp and watery-green with a slightly waxy edge, developing into a soft floral facet reminiscent of narcissus and crushed foliage.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 324.
Colorless oily liquid.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Refreshing green-floral odor of poor tenacity. Mild, yet quite diffusive, overall more sweet-floral than Cyclohexenyl acetaldehyde.
This aldehyde finds some use in perfumery, although only in certain types of fragrances for household products, etc. Its odor type is not suitable for finer perfumes, except as a minor ingredient in aldehydic topnote compositions.
1) from Butadiene by condensation with Crotonaldehyde, followed by hydrogenation. 2) by ozonolysis of l-Allylcyclohexan-l-ol. 3) from Acetylene via Cyclohexylidene acetaldehyde - by hydrogenation.