A soft, fatty jasmine-like floral with a waxy, slightly herbal-green undertone. Less sharp and more diffusive than hexyl cinnamic aldehyde, lending creaminess and a subtle sweetness to white-floral accords. Long-lasting and rounded, with a mildly oily persistence on the drydown.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1051.
Viscous yellowish oil.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
When this material is absolutely pure, it is virtually odorless (in the opinion of most perfumers). Older odor descriptions seem to indicate that the material has been available in a rather impure state, with Benzaldehyde notes more or less perceptible.
The material could find some use as a fixative/blender in Jasmin and Tuberose bases where the very mild oily-green odor of the subject material could be forced out in presence of larger amounts of more volatile components. However, in competition with the two favored members of the series, Amyl- and Hexyl-, the title material has really nothing to offer, and it is inevitably more expensive than the two others. In view of the above, the author would consider the title material practically obsolete in perfumery.
Produced by condensation of Decylaldehyde with Benzaldehyde under mildly alkaline conditions.