A green-floral aldehyde with a rosy-geranium character and a waxy, slightly fatty undertone. Bright and diffusive at first with a fresh, dewy petal feel, drying down to a soft geranium-like floralcy.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 587.
Colorless viscous oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and perfume oils, poorly soluble in propylene glycol.
Powerful and lasting, sweet-floral, overall green-rosy odor. The subject material has a deeper, more delicate rosy odor, not as penetrating as the former.
Geranoxy acetaldehyde is used in perfume compositions for variations of the Rose theme, also for Peony notes and other delicate nuances, and in Freesia and other sweet floral fragrances.
Produced from analogous with the preparation of Citronellyl oxyacetaldehyde.