A sweet, nutty almond aroma closely reminiscent of benzaldehyde or bitter almond, with cherry-pit and marzipan facets. Slightly harsh and solvent-like at full strength, softening to a warm, sugary nut character on dilution.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1011.
Colorless or pale yellowish liquid.
Very slightly soluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Peculiar, but intensely sweet and pungent-herbaceous odor, displaying a complex of green, anisic, almondy and woody-herbaceous notes.
The subject material has been used in soap perfumes but may be considered as abandoned in perfumery.
Produced from Cyclohexane by treatment with Nitric acid at 2 to 10 atmospheres pressure (elevated temperature).