A fatty, waxy alcohol with a soft floral-citrus character reminiscent of orange peel and sweet aldehydes. Rounder and less sharp than the corresponding C10 aldehyde, with a clean, slightly soapy waxiness that lingers.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 347.
Colorless liquid, solidifies in the cold.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Sweet, slightly fatty-oily odor, waxy and floral, mainly rosy, also reminiscent of Lily and Orangeblossom, but fresher, in the same way as Citronellol is fresh.
The taste is floral, oily, mainly citrusy.
Widely used in perfume compositions, although often only in traces. More liberally used in masking odors for industrial purposes, and as a blender, modifier for Linalool, Citronellol, etc. in low-cost floral blends. It blends well with the aliphatic Aldehydes and lends softness to these.
Used in flavor compositions, mainly in imitation Butter, Orange, Coconut, Lemon and various combination fruit flavor types.
Produced by fractionation of Coconut fatty alcohols isolated via esterification and reduction.