A powerfully diffusive fatty aldehyde with a distinctive oily, fish-skin character reminiscent of cod liver oil and fresh cucumber peel. At trace levels it reads as green, watery and slightly melon-like, but neat it is aggressively fishy and rancid-fatty. Used in ultra-low ppm doses for marine, melon and dairy effects.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 625.
Colorless oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Powerful, fresh-fatty-oily odor, reminiscent of fresh cream.
This rare aldehyde is used in flavor compositions to 'reconstitute' the odor of fresh cream - introduce a 'creamy' topnote to flavors intended for ice cream, whipped cream and many other dairy products.