A very volatile, ethereal top-note chemical with a green, slightly herbaceous freshness reminiscent of crushed leaves and cut grass with a subtle rummy nuance. Diffusive and short-lived, it lends an airy, natural greenness to top accords before flashing off.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 573.
Colorless mobile liquid.
Miscible with water, alcohol and oils.
Very diffusive, sweet-ethereal odor, somewhat reminiscent of Acetone and Methyl acetate.
Sweet, ethereal, slightly fruity taste. Not very powerful.
This acetal finds perhaps a little use in perfume compositions where its exceptional diffusive power can augment the radiation of certain types of topnote, e.g. Citrusy, winey or green topnotes.
Produced from Chloromethyl methylether plus Sodium ethoxide.