A soft, green-floral material with a hyacinth and mild rosy character, milder and more diffusive than free phenylacetaldehyde. The acetal protection tames the sharp, honeyed aldehydic bite, leaving a fresh leafy-floral impression with a slight waxy nuance.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1079.
Colorless liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Herbaceous-green, but not very pleasant odor of moderate tenacity.
This acetal does not present the more desirable type of the green odors, but it has found a little use in Hyacinth and Narcisse type fragrances.
Produced by condensation of Phenylacetaldehyde with Amylalcohol. Also from Benzylmagnesium chloride and Amyl-ortho-formate.