A powerful fatty-waxy aldehyde with a distinctive orange-peel and mandarin-like fruity brightness. Opens sharp and oily-citrus, developing into a rounded, slightly green-melon character reminiscent of coriander leaf and cilantro. Very diffusive and easily overdosed.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1349.
Colorless mobile oil
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils
Very powerful oily-caramellic, 'baked-spicy' odor with citrusy undertones
The title aldehyde could possibly be used in flavors, since it has much of the 'cooked' or even 'baked' fruit note, e.g. baked Apple, Orange, etc.
It should have good possibilities in new topnote creations for perfumes of the citrusy, herbaceous and mildly fruity character
Produced from Croton aldehyde and n-Heptanal by condensation. Also by double addition of Acetaldehyde to Heptanal