A fresh floral-green material with a bright, dewy lily-of-the-valley character and a soft citrus-aldehydic lift. Smoother and less pungent than hydroxycitronellal itself, with a clean, slightly waxy floral trail that lasts well into the dry-down.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 575.
Colorless viscous oil.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Very mild, refreshing, green-floral, citrus-like, lemon-type odor of good tenacity.
This acetal remains therefore, largely a curiosity, rather than a standard shelf item in the perfume laboratory.
Produced from formaldehyde diethyl acetal plus hydroxycitronellol by short-time boiling.