A bitter-almond / benzaldehyde-type odor with a marzipan and cherry-pit facet, sweet and slightly nutty. Reads as a classic heliotrope/cherry accessory note with a faintly pungent, cyanohydrin edge on the opening.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 779.
White prismatic crystals or yellowish oily liquid.
Insoluble in water (decomposes), soluble in alcohol and oils.
This material has been used to prepare the so-called 'Bitter Almond Water', a mild flavor corrigens employed in pharmacy.
As a food flavoring agent, this preparation is abandoned in most countries, and replaced with dilutions of Benzaldehyde.
Produced from Benzaldehyde with Sodium bisulfite and Sodium cyanide.