A powerful fatty-aldehydic material with a distinctly citrus-peel character, reminiscent of orange rind and tallow. Sharp and pungent in isolation, with a greasy, waxy undertone that mellows into a warm, slightly soapy citrus impression on dry-down.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 348.
Colorless oily liquid
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils
Very powerful, waxy-Orange-like, sweet- 'aldehydic' odor of fair tenacity and high diffusive power
Used in fruit flavors, mainly Citrus types, but also in Peach, Apricot and other fruit flavors, where it may introduce a fresh-green note
Finds occasionally some application in perfume compositions, mainly in the reconstruction of certain essential oils, or as an additive to Citrus bases for topnote effects
Produced from alpha-Bromocapric acid via Decenoic acid and its Ethylester to Decenol, which is oxidized to Decenal. Also produced from Acetaldehyde by condensation with m-Octanal.