Extremely pungent, sharp, and irritating — a harsh green-aldehydic bite reminiscent of acrolein but with a slightly softer, more herbaceous edge. Not used as a finished perfumery material in its own right; it is a highly reactive, low-boiling α,β-unsaturated aldehyde with an acrid, lachrymatory character.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 791.
Colorless mobile liquid.
6% soluble in water, miscible with alcohol and oils.
Extremely diffusive, gassy-sweet odor, in high concentration pungent and irritating, only in extreme dilution fairly pleasant herbaceous-balsamic and remotely orange-like.
Traces of this aldehyde have been used in the artificial reconstruction of certain essential oils, particularly the herbaceous types.
The material is also used in certain difficult cases of masking of industrial odors.