A powerful, piercing green note in the methyl heptin/octin carbonate family — evokes crushed violet leaves, snapped stems and unripe cucumber peel. Intensely vegetal and slightly waxy-oily at the top, with a lingering leafy-metallic edge that reads as 'freshly cut'.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 907.
Colorless liquid
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils
Powerful “gassy”-green odor, less fatty but also less “vegetable”-like than Methyl heptin carbonate
Possible, limited use, but no obvious advantage, and no future in perfumery
Produced from Methyl-iso-amylketone via 5-Methyl-n-hex-1-yne and its acid to the acetylenic ester