A powerful, fresh green odor reminiscent of cucumber skin and melon rind with a waxy, fatty aldehydic undertone. In dilution it opens crisp and watery-green, evoking just-cut violet leaf and unripe melon. Very potent — overdose reads soapy and metallic.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1014.
Colorless oily liquid.
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol, propylene glycol and oils.
Extremely powerful and very diffusive oily-green, herbaceous and, in proper dilution, sweet, pleasant leafy-vegetable odor of moderate to poor tenacity.
Sweet cucumber-peel, vegetable-green taste in concentrations near 0.1 ppm or lower.
The material is used in Violet perfumes, Narcisse bases, and in topnote compositions as a green-fresh, natural and very diffusive note. Interesting effects are achieved with this material in Muguet, Lily, Cyclamen, Ylang-Ylang, etc.
The title alcohol is almost a 'must' in Cucumber imitation, in many berry flavors and 'green-Apple', fruit complexes and the old-fashioned 'Violet' flavor with Ionones, Geranium oil, etc.
When natural Hexenol is used as a starting material, the preferred isomer will result. This is called “natural” because it is evidently identical to the naturally occurring alcohol. If synthetic Hexenol is used, the less desirable isomer will result. It has a more dry, less pleasant-oily character. There are several methods in use for the production of this alcohol.