A soft, green-floral material with a clean hyacinth and rosy honey character. Milder and more stable than free phenylacetaldehyde, it lends a delicate leafy-floral freshness without the harsh aldehydic bite, opening into a subtle sweet honeyed undertone.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1084.
Colorless oily liquid.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Clean and mild, fresh-rosy, leafy odor of moderate to poor tenacity.
This acetal has been in use in perfumery for a long time, and it is well liked by some perfumers, while many others cannot see any effect in it. It has an overall refreshing effect upon floral and floral-green fragrance types. For Hyacinth, Rose, Narcisse, Muguet, etc. It finds use at relatively high concentration, often in combination with the carbinols, supporting the floral greenness of those materials.
Produced by condensation of Phenylacetaldehyde and Ethyleneglycol.