Soft, powdery floral with a marzipan-like almond sweetness and a gentle vanillic-balsamic warmth. Evokes heliotrope and cherry-blossom accents, rounded and creamy without the sharpness of heliotropin. Diffuses quietly and adds a smooth, cosmetic powderiness to florals.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 617.
Crystal needles, colorless or white.
Slightly soluble in hot water, soluble in alcohol, miscible with most perfume oils.
Weak, sweet, nondescript odor, remotely reminiscent of Vanilla.
The alcohol as such has probably very little value as a perfume or flavor material. Certain esters are used to some extent but the author finds that there is rarely, if ever, a definite need for Heliotropyl alcohol in a perfume or flavor.
Produced from Heliotropine by reduction with Sodium amalgam in alcohol.