A fresh, green-floral aroma chemical with a rosy-geranium character and a crisp, slightly metallic-fruity edge reminiscent of grapefruit peel. Cleaner and more diffusive than geraniol itself, with a nitrile-typical stability that lets it hold up in functional bases.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 593.
Colorless or very pale straw-colored oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Warm-sweet, floral-herbaceous odor of considerable tenacity.
The subject Nitrile is used in heavy floral fragrances, Oriental types, soap and talcum perfumes, etc.
Produced from Myrcene, via Myrcene hydrochloride and with iso-Butyronitrile, using Sodamide catalyst, to the title material.