Sweet, anisic-floral aroma reminiscent of hawthorn blossom and mimosa, with a soft powdery-balsamic facet. Warmer and more floral than anisaldehyde, with a creamy vanillic edge that lingers on the blotter.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 462.
Colorless liquid. Solidifies in the cold, melting at 14°C.
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Sweet, floral and somewhat herbaceous odor of good tenacity. Milder than Anisaldehyde, more floral, less herbaceous, but overall not quite as powerful.
Traces of this aldehyde are used in Vanilla and fruit flavor compositions, partly as a sweetener, partly as a modifier for Heliotropine, Anisalcohol, Vanillin and other sweeteners.
Finds a little use in perfume compositions where the harsher notes of Anisaldehyde prevents extensive use of that material, in general as a floralizer with fair stability in soap and good performance in room sprays, etc.
Produced by Ethylation of para-Hydroxybenzaldehyde. The Ethylation of the hydroxyaldehyde is carried out using Aluminium chloride as a catalyst.