A sweet, powdery aromatic aldehyde with a pronounced anisic-vanillic character reminiscent of hawthorn blossom and mimosa. Sits between heliotropin and anisaldehyde in feel — soft, creamy and slightly almondy, with a warm balsamic drydown.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 432.
White or colorless needlelike crystals.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
It has only a faint, sweet nut-like and remotely floral odor of considerable tenacity; remotely reminiscent of heliotrope.
It lends some fixative effect, and it has occasionally been used in perfume compositions as a modifier for anisaldehyde, etc. in chypres, fougeres and similar heavy complexes.
Produced by Tiemann-Reimer reaction (formation of phenolic aldehydes from phenol, chloroform, alkali) upon resorcinol, followed by methylation with dimethylsulfate. Also from resorcinol with hydrocyanic acid or with hydrochloric acid, followed by methylation.