A softer, more diffusive version of heliotropin — powdery floral with a sweet almond-cherry facet and a light anisic lift. Less waxy and more airy than heliotropin itself, lending a delicate powdery-floral aura to compositions.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 615.
Colorless oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Very mild floral, sweet odor of mildly green-spicy type, remotely reminiscent of Heliotrope and Hawthorne — but much weaker.
This acetal finds a little use in flavor compositions for its creamy-nut-like taste in imitation Coconut, Nut, Cream, Vanilla, and other flavors, particularly those intended for baked products.
The author finds that this material is of very little value and could not possibly arouse much interest among other perfumers even if the material were made commercially available.
Produced from Heliotropine and Ethanol with dehydrating agent.