An intensely green, freshly crushed leaf aroma — the smell of a lawn just cut or a snapped stem. Sharper, more pungent and 'wet' than cis-3-hexenol, with a slight cucumber-peel and unripe fruit facet. Extremely potent; even trace amounts read as vivid living greenery.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 660.
Colorless liquid.
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils. Fairly soluble in Propylene glycol.
Powerful, deep-green, leafy odor reminiscent of Strawberry-leaf and wine-leaf, freshly crushed.
The subject aldehyde is used in flavor compositions in minute traces to introduce a natural, green note in many types of fruit flavor.
This aldehyde is occasionally used in perfume compositions as part of a green top-note complex, not only for herbaceous fragrance types, but also in various floral compositions.
Produced by oxidation of Hexenol.