A powerful, penetrating green-violet-leaf note with a fresh, unripe fruity edge reminiscent of galbanum and cucumber peel. Sharp and diffusive at first, mellowing into a leafy, slightly metallic freshness. Signature for adding a crisp, wet-green top-note lift to florals and fougères.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 880.
Colorless liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Powerful and very diffusive, foliage-green, somewhat pungent, but also sweet odor of moderate to poor tenacity.
It finds some use in perfumery, where it may constitute a minor part of green topnotes often in combination with fruity notes. Its main purpose is that of supplying the necessary foliage notes in Violet, Narcisse, Cassie and similar floral bases, occasionally also in imitation Cucumber odor.
Produced from (many methods) e.g. from Hexaldehyde via Hexyne to the carboxylic acid, which is subsequently esterified. Also from Methyl-n-butylketone via n-Hex-l-yne.