A rich, oily jasmine-type floral with a distinctly fatty, waxy character and soft green undertones. Less sharp and more diffusive than hexyl cinnamic aldehyde, it lends creamy, slightly herbaceous floralcy that lingers and rounds out white-floral accords.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 632.
Pale yellowish, oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils. Insoluble in propylene glycol.
Very faint, mild, sweet-oily odor. In compositions with more volatile ingredients, this aldehyde shows a floral effect.
Although actually just a member of a long line of research chemicals developed in search of good variations of amylcinnamic aldehyde, this aldehyde has occasionally found use in perfumery. However, it has not become a shelf-item such as its lower homologue, hexylcinnamic aldehyde.
Produced by condensation of benzaldehyde with n-nonanal (Claisen condensation).