A dry, saffron-leather aromachemical with a pungent, slightly tarry-tobacco facet. Reminiscent of safranal but sharper and more radiant, contributing a warm, ambery-spicy dryness that reads as suede or aged tobacco leaf when diluted.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 357.
Pale yellowish oily liquid.
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Very powerful, sweet, green-floral and somewhat tobacco-herbaceous odor of good tenacity.
Interesting material for fresh topnotes, as a modifier for aldehydic-citrusy notes, as a green-floral topnote in flower fragrances, etc.
The aldehyde is, to the author's knowledge, not used extensively in flavor compositions.
1) from Picrocrocin. 2) by dehydration of beta-Cyclocitral with Selenium dioxide.