A sweet, waxy floral aldehyde with a distinct honeyed-hyacinth character and a soft green underpinning. Less sharp than the shorter-chain fatty aldehydes — rounder and more floral, with a beeswax-like warmth that emerges after the initial diffusion.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1092.
Colorless oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Powerful, fruity-floral and sweet, tenacious odor.
This aldehyde has been used in perfume compositions under various trade names and has rarely been offered under its proper chemical name.
Produced by oxidation (more correctly called dehydrogenation) of 4-Phenylbutan-1-ol.