A warm, sweet-balsamic aromatic aldehyde with a phenolic vanilla-like character and a faint almond-heliotrope facet. Reminiscent of ortho-methoxy salicylaldehyde but softer and more powdery, with a subtle spicy-anisic edge that lingers into the drydown.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 804.
Yellowish crystals.
Very slightly soluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Faint, but very sweet and mildly pungent medicinal-Vanilla-like odor with notes recalling Guaiacol, Salicylaldehyde, Coumarin and Vanillin at the same time. Overall not a very attractive combination, but due to the weakness of odor, not really unpleasant.
The title material is briefly mentioned here for various reasons. It has found some use as an antioxidant, mostly in technical products.
It occurs as a by-product in the manufacture of Vanillin by the Guiacol-method.