A fresh, green-floral alcohol with a soft citrus-lime facet and a slightly fatty, waxy undertone reminiscent of linden blossom and cut grass. Airy and diffusive in the top, quickly fading into a clean muguet-like nuance.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 697.
Colorless oily liquid.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Powerful, oily-green creamy-waxy odor with a discrete undertone of peppery-earthy-mushroomy character.
Sweet-earthy-oily taste with some resemblance to Mushroom.
This alcohol, a higher homologue of the more commonly used Amyl vinyl carbinol, has found some use in perfumery as a fortifier for herbaceous or sweet-woody-earthy notes, e.g. Lavender, Oakmoss, Vetiver, Coumarin, etc.
The alcohol finds some use in flavor compositions, mainly as a modifier for Amyl vinyl carbinol in Mushroom flavors.
Produced from Hexyl magnesium bromide plus Acrolein by Grignard reaction.