Sharp, green-camphoraceous terpenic note with a cool herbal, pine-like character reminiscent of myrtle and cumin. Has a slightly spicy, aldehydic edge with woody-resinous facets underneath.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 991.
Colorless liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Refreshing, spicy-herbaceous odor of Bay-leaf-Cinnamon character.
This aldehyde has found good use in perfume compositions and forms component of many successful perfume bases.
1) by Chromic acid oxidation of Myrtenol. 2) by isolation from the higher-than-Cineole fractions in the process of rectifying Eucalyptus oil (E. globulus).