Powerful fatty aldehyde with a sharp orange-peel and waxy-citrus character. Fresh and slightly soapy on top, developing a greasy, tallowy facet as it dries down. Signature bright, penetrating snap typical of C10 aldehyde.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 344.
Colorless, slightly oily liquid.
Very slightly soluble in water, soluble in alcohol, miscible with oils.
Penetrating and very powerful, sweet-waxy, orange-peel-like odor. In extreme dilution refreshing, citrus-peel-like.
The flavor of this aldehyde is pleasant only at concentrations well below 5 ppm.
Extensively used in perfume compositions, although always in low percentage, mostly less than 1% of the total base or formulation. Excellent for citrus topnotes, for neroli, rose, jasmine, violet, acacia, etc. and blends well with linalool and related alcohols, cyclamal and other floral aldehydes, and combines pleasantly with the conventional aliphatic aldehydes.
Produced from n-Decanol by catalytic oxidation.