A sharp, highly volatile ethereal note with a sweet, slightly anesthetic quality reminiscent of ether or diethyl ether. Flashes off almost immediately, leaving a faint green-sweet whisper. Used in trace amounts for lift and a fleeting 'cool air' effect at the very top of a composition.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1387.
Colorless mobile liquid
Very slightly soluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils
Very diffusive, nauseating-ethereal, but sweet odor of poor tenacity
Aqueous solutions have a sweet taste, but not as sweet as Chloroform
Used in very discrete amounts, the ether gives powerful lift to sweet topnotes, be it Citrus or Rose, Jasmin or 'green' notes
Produced by bubbling Acetylene through Ethyl alcohol in presence of Sodium ethoxide