A soft, waxy-fatty aldehydic material with a creamy, slightly musky character reminiscent of orris butter and beeswax. Over time it settles into a smooth, powdery skin-like warmth with subtle floral undertones.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 990.
Colorless liquid. Solidifies in the cold, melts at 19°C.
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Very powerful, in dilution refreshingly citrusy, in concentration rather choking, pungent odor of considerable tenacity, and with an undertone of fresh Oakmoss.
This nitrile was one of the pioneering materials in what eventually became a new range of perfume chemicals.
Produced from Tridecyl bromide and Potassium cyanide, or: from Tridecyl magnesium bromide and Cyanogen chloride (Grignard).