A soft rosy-floral aroma chemical in the geraniol family, with a fresh green geranium facet and a mildly sweet, slightly fruity edge. Rounded and clean rather than sharp, it blends easily into rose and floral accords without dominating.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 599.
Colorless liquid. Pale yellowish liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Faintly rosy, but overall fatty-acetic odor, remotely reminiscent of Acetic acid.
Sharp and pungent taste.
Apart from some possible application in the reconstruction of certain essential oils, this acid has probably very little use in perfumery.
Produced from Glycollic acid and Geraniol.