A sweet, phenolic-balsamic aroma reminiscent of hay, vanilla, and sweet almond with a soft powdery facet. Warm and slightly medicinal, it bridges coumarinic hay notes with a mild floral-balsamic sweetness.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 716.
White powder or crystal needles.
1.4% soluble in water, soluble in alcohol, but poorly soluble in most oils.
Very faint, sweet-woody-balsamic odor. Chemically pure aldehyde is virtually odorless.
The taste of this aldehyde is sweet with little or no other flavor impression. The sweetness is perceptible in aqueous solutions of less than 1° aldehyde.
1) from Phenol in the manufacture of Salicylic aldehyde (which is the ortho-isomer). 2) from para-Aminobenzaldehyde by Diazoreaction. 3) from Phenol and anhydrous Zinc cyanide in Benzene, followed by hydrolysis.