A powerful green-floral aroma chemical with a distinct hyacinth character, backed by honeyed and slightly geranium-like facets. Fresh, dewy and leafy on top, turning softer and honey-floral as it develops.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1072.
Colorless viscous liquid.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Powerful green, wood-sap-like, but fresh and aldehydic-sweet, floral-sweet odor of considerable tenacity. The terminal notes are particularly sweet and attractive.
This aldehyde, often sold under trade names, has found some use in perfume compositions. It performs particularly well with the Ionones and Methylionones for woody-floral complexes, and in Geranium for powerful, fresh-green effects. It can also give lift and novel effects in Lavender with Oakmoss, in Chypre, etc. It is an aldehyde of considerable versatility and power.
1) from Phenol in weak aqueous alkali with Monochloroacetaldehyde dimethylacetal to yield the acetal of the title aldehyde. Oxalic acid hydrolysis affords the aldehyde itself, 2) by hydrolysis of Phenoxyacetylchioride.