A green, fruity aldehyde with a fresh, slightly waxy character. Recalls unripe apple and pear peel with a leafy, sappy edge and a mildly herbal, cyclic-terpene undertone. Diffusive and airy rather than heavy.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 329.
Colorless liquid.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Powerful and diffusive, refreshing, sweet-floral odor of poor tenacity.
As a trace component in Citrus compositions, or in citrusy topnote bases, it may give quite interesting effects, and it is quite possible that it forms part of certain specialties of that type.
Produced by (many methods) e. g. by ozonolysis of l-Allylcyclohexan-l-ol. (a certain amount of Cyclohexyl acetaldehyde is also formed). Other methods are based upon Acetylene synthesis.