A drier, smokier facet of vetiver — the characteristic earthy, rooty vetiver character but lifted and made more transparent by the formate ester. Less humid and greasy than raw vetiver oil, with a subtle leathery-smoky top and a clean woody drydown.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1384.
Pale straw-colored, slightly viscous liquid.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Delicate, dry-sweet, powdery odor of excellent tenacity. Poorly stored material often show sharp or pungent (formic) notes.
The title material is not very stable, and unless it has found steady use in a specialty composition, it will rarely be found in any perfume laboratory or stockroom. It is of very little importance to the working perfumer.
Produced by cold formylation of purified Vetiverol.