A dry, woody-amber aromachemical in the Iso E Super family — soft, transparent cedar-like woodiness with a smooth ambery undertone and a subtle musky diffusion. Very smooth and radiant rather than sharp, giving a velvety backdrop with excellent substantivity.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 445.
Colorless oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Sweet, floral-musky odor of good tenacity. Often described as resembling the odor of Ambrette seed.
This aldehyde did find some application in perfumery, until more effective and more readily available floral-musk type chemicals were developed.