Sweet, powdery, almond-like floral with a distinct cherry-vanilla nuance. Recalls heliotrope flowers and marzipan, with a soft creamy warmth that lingers into the drydown.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 614.
White or colorless crystals.
Soluble in cold water, somewhat better in hot water. Soluble in alcohol and oils, somewhat soluble in propylene glycol. Insoluble in glycerin. Volatile with steam.
Very sweet floral, warm slightly spicy and tenacious odor, sometimes described as 'Cherry-like' (American type Cherry).
Sweet, spicy-floral taste of considerable power.
Heliotropine is very extensively used in perfume compositions - from the very expensive types all the way down to household fragrances and industrial perfumes. Concentrations may vary from less than one percent to more than ten percent, but floral effects are usually obtained with a few percent.
Heliotropine finds extensive use in flavor compositions, although the power of Heliotropine as a flavoring agent is often underestimated, and the concentration should be kept at a minimum in order to achieve truly pleasant and 'non-perfumey' effects.
1) by oxidation of iso-Safrole, which is obtained by isomerization of Safrole, a distillation isolate from Brazilian Ocotea pretiosa oil or Chinese Camphor oil. 2) from Catechol (Pyrocatechol).