Phenylacetaldehyde is a powerful, sweet floral aldehyde with a strong hyacinth-honey character and a green, slightly earthy undertone. Fresh on the strip it can read almost harsh and rooty, quickly settling into a warm, honeyed floral facet reminiscent of narcissus and lilac.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1084.
Colorless viscous liquid.
It is interesting to compare the structure and odor of this material to Formaldehyde phenyl-ethyleneglycol acetal (4-Phenyl-1, 3-dioxolan)
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.