A fresh, diffusive top note with a green-rosy geranium character and a light citrus-terpenic lift. Cleaner and less sweet than geraniol itself, drying down into a soft floral-aromatic facet.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 509.
Colorless oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol, miscible with oils.
Diffusive-green, fresh-leafy, somewhat grassy and sweet odor of moderate tenacity. The greenness tends to be vegetable-like, sometimes described as 'lettuce-juice'-like, while the sweetness is almost floral.
This ether has been suggested for use in perfume compositions, particularly in soap perfumes, since it is stable in mild alkali.
Produced from (several methods), e.g. from Geranyl chloride plus Sodium ethoxide in Ethyl alcohol. Also from Linalool by isomerization under ethylalcoholic conditions.