A long-chain fatty aldehyde with a soft waxy-musky character reminiscent of clean skin and warm ironed linen. Opens with a mild aldehydic-floral lift and settles into a creamy, slightly powdery musk-like drydown with subtle orris and ambrette facets.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1067.
White waxy-crystalline mass melting at 25° C.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Very faint, but delicately fresh-floral odor of good tenacity.
This aldehyde is occasionally used in perfume compositions as part of a floral base or part of a floral top-note, aldehydic-green or aldehydic-fruity top-note.
Produced by oxidation of Pentadecanol