A protected form of phenylacetaldehyde — softer and more stable than the free aldehyde. Smells of green hyacinth and rosy-honeyed petals, with a mild sweet floralcy that emerges slowly rather than the sharp, harsh punch of raw phenylacetaldehyde.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1081.
Colorless liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Sweet-earthy, green-floral Hyacinth type odor. Not quite as sweet as the odor of the 1,2-dihydroxybutane acetal.
Produced by condensation of Phenylacetaldehyde with 1,3-Dihydroxybutane (1,3-Butylene glycol).