A soft, rosy-floral geranium with a clean green edge and a subtle minty-citrus lift. The terpeneless version is smoother and less harsh than the standard oil, with the leafy-sharp top notes trimmed back, leaving a more rounded rose-geranium heart.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 178.
colorless or very pale yellow liquids
The odor of the rhodinol is delightfully sweet, yet fresh and rosy, very uniform and tenacious. The odor of the terpeneless geranium oil varies according to the individual supplier of the oil.
Rhodinol ex Geranium is used very extensively in perfumery as a base for rose, muguet, carnation, appleblossom and many other perfume types. Its floral sweetness, delightful freshness and delicate warm-rosy tonalities blend well with the odors of hydroxycitronellal, linalool, geraniol, dimethyl benzyl carbinol, cinnamic alcohol, cyclamen aldehyde, phenyl ethyl alcohol, geranyl esters, linalyl esters, etc.