A fatty-aldehydic material with a distinctly oily, waxy character reminiscent of cucumber peel and unripe melon rind. Underneath sits a green, slightly cardboard-like nuance typical of long-chain unsaturated aldehydes, with a subtle sweet-fruity undertone as it dries down.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1025.
Pale yellowish liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Faint, but pleasant, warm-woody-herbal odor with some resemblance to Ambregris.
This material, very rarely offered commercially, has probably little more than academic interest, since many materials with good Ambregris odor have been developed after the first mention of this peculiar aldehyde.
Produced by condensation of Furfural with 10-Undecenal under mildly alkaline conditions.