A soft, green-floral hyacinth character with a honeyed sweetness and a faint earthy undertone. Rounder and more tenacious than free phenylacetaldehyde, without the harsh, sharp aldehydic bite — the acetal form releases the aldehyde slowly, giving a smoother, longer-lasting floral effect.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1079.
Colorless liquid.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Mild, yet rather heavy-floral, sweet and tenacious odor.
This acetal has found some use in perfume compositions for its ability to supply a pleasant, not very conspicuous, green-forest-like and slightly earthy undertone, useful in Muguet and Lilac compositions. It blends well with the carbinols and the rose alcohols, and it has a mellowing effect upon Indole, often used in such compositions.
Produced by condensation of Phenylacetaldehyde with Benzylalcohol.