A muted, slow-release form of vanillin — much softer and less sweet on first sniff than vanillin itself, with a faint balsamic-powdery character. As the acetate groups gradually hydrolyse it develops a rounder, creamy vanilla warmth without the sharp phenolic bite of free vanillin, making it a discreet, long-lasting vanilla fixative.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1377.
White needle-like crystals.
Poorly soluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Practically odorless and tasteless.
This material is briefly mentioned in this work in order to complete the description of acetylated Vanillins, the nomenclature of which is rather confused in the perfumery literature.
Produced from Vanillin in alkaline solution with surplus of Acetic anhydride and Sodium acetate. Also by dry reaction upon an alkaline salt of Vanillin.