A bright, green fruity-fresh material with a crisp leafy character reminiscent of unripe pear, apple skin and cut stems. Has a light waxy-herbal undertone that gives it a natural, garden-fresh feel.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 541.
Colorless liquid.
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Powerful and penetrating, gassy-green, oily-vegetable odor of moderate to poor tenacity.
It has found some use in perfume compositions, not only as a Violet-leaf-green odor, but also as a trace component in fresh-green topnotes, where it blends excellently with Estragon and Basil.
Produced from Methyl-n-propyl ketone via n-Pent-l-yne to the acid and to the ester.