Ambiguous shorthand — most likely referring to Aldehyde C-7 (heptanal) or a heptyl ester. As heptanal it reads as a sharp, oily-green aldehyde with a fatty citrus-peel edge and a slightly ozonic/soapy lift. Fast to flash on the blotter, leaving a faintly waxy, herbaceous trail.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 635.
Colorless oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Bitter floral taste in concentrations down to a few ppm.
Bitter floral taste in concentrations down to a few ppm.
For such materials there are countless uses in perfumery: not only in Jasmin bases and perfumes, but virtually in all floral and many herbaceous or non-floral types as well.
Produced by cyclization of Dodecenoic acid.