A soft floral-citrus with a distinct herbal-lime freshness reminiscent of lily-of-the-valley and linden blossom. Fresh and slightly waxy in opening, drying down to a mild green-floral note.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1038.
Colorless oily liquid.
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Diffusive and refreshing camphoraceous-lime-like odor with an undertone of floral sweetness and — in spite of its low boiling point — a moderate to good tenacity.
The material gives much more interesting results in floral and green-floral fragrance types, Muguet, Lily, Narcisse, etc. and in modern soap perfumes blending pleasantly with Lilial, Lyral, Cyclamal, Hydroxycitronellal.
Produced from Ocimene by hydration, e.g. by Bertram-Walbaum’s method (glacial Acetic acid and Sulfuric acid).