A soft floral-aldehydic material with a green, slightly waxy character reminiscent of hyacinth and cyclamen petals. Sweet and rounded rather than sharp, with a mild fatty-aldehyde nuance that gives lift to floral accords. Often described as bridging jasmine and muguet facets.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 888.
Colorless oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Mild and sweet, oily-floral, warm odor with a faint undertone of fruity-spicy character and a good tenacity.
This aldehyde has found a little use in perfume compositions as a modifier in balsamic-floral and spicy-floral fragrances.
Produced by controlled hydrogenation of alpha-Methylcinnamic aldehyde which is obtained from Benzaldehyde by condensation with Propionic aldehyde under mildly alkaline, aqueous conditions.