A soft floral-aldehydic material with a clean, slightly waxy muguet character. Reminiscent of cyclamen and lily-of-the-valley with a green, mildly fatty undertone, less sharp than classic fatty aldehydes and more rounded.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 889.
Colorless oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Sweet, warm-floral, tenacious odor with mildly spicy undertones. Reminiscent of Heliotrope and Cassia, but overall more delicate.
This aldehyde has been suggested for use in perfume compositions as a supporting floral or floral-balsamic or floral-spicy ingredient in Oriental fragrance types, Sweet Pea, Frangipanni, etc. or in various Fantasy fragrance types. It blends well with the Ionones, Amylsalicylate, Ylang-Ylang, Cinnamic alcohol, etc. and gives interesting depth to a Lilac, with its more delicate notes, generally preferred over Anisaldehyde or similar, harsh odorants.
Produced by condensation of para-Tolylaldehyde with Acetaldehyde, followed by hydrogenation of the unsaturated chain.