A soft, green-floral material with a hyacinth-like character and a rooty, slightly earthy undertone. Milder and rounder than free phenylacetaldehyde — less harsh and cleaner, with a fresh leafy-floral lift. Adds naturalistic green facets to florals like hyacinth, narcissus, lilac and rose.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1080.
Colorless liquid.
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Sweet-foliage-like, intensively green and moderately tenacious odor. More refined or delicate, less pungent-green than the Dimethyl-acetal.
It is still used in perfume compositions where a more discrete green, Lilac-green effect is desired.
Produced from Benzyl magnesium chloride and Ethyl-ortho-formate.