A sweet, aldehydic almond-cherry note reminiscent of benzaldehyde but softer and rounder, with a faint floral-fruity undertone. In dilution it reads like marzipan or cherry pit with a light green edge.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 471.
Colorless liquid.
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils. Poorly soluble in Propylene glycol.
Sweet, bitter-almond-type odor, weaker, but more tenacious than that of Benzaldehyde. A slightly gassy, floral greenness is perhaps the most characteristic feature of the Ethyl-benzaldehyde.
Suggested as a substitute for Benzaldehyde, which is rather unstable, in perfume compositions. It could find some use in mild florals, such as Lilac, Appleblossom, etc. and the aldehyde could also be used as a masking agent in industrial fragrances,
Produced from Ethyl toluene by oxidation. Ethyl toluene (mainly para-) is obtained by fractionation of gas oil.