A green floral aromachemical with a fresh lily-of-the-valley (muguet) character, reminiscent of crushed green leaves and white petals. Diffusive and clean, with a slightly sharp green edge that softens into a soft floral heart.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 366.
Yellowish oily liquid, or yellowish needle-like crystals, melting at 30° C.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol, miscible in oils.
Extremely powerful, diffusive, gassy-fruity odor. In very high dilution pleasantly apple-like with a rose-like sweetness.
In aqueous dilution below 10 ppm, the flavor is sweet, ethereal, intensely apple-like with a rosy undertone.
This peculiar chemical is mentioned partly because of its unusual power and fragrance type, partly because it is one of the oldest of all 'unconventional' fragrance materials.
Produced by chlorination (bubbling chlorine) of phenyl nitroethylene in dry chloroform solution.