A soft, slightly sweet cinnamic-balsamic material with a rounded floral-waxy character reminiscent of styrax and cinnamyl alcohol tempered by a fatty heptyl nuance. Less sharp than cinnamic aldehyde, drifting into a mild, powdery floral facet on dryout.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 633.
Colorless viscous liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Powerful, sweet and tenacious, warm-woody, somewhat balsamic odor. Not reminiscent of any particular natural material.
Has been suggested for use in perfume compositions, but is very rarely offered commercially. It may find a little use as a fixative and modifier in Oriental fragrance types of heavy-balsamic florals.
Produced from Cinnamic alcohol and 2-Heptanol by dehydration.