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CAS No.
37677-14-8, 52475-89-5
Odour (decreasing):
Citrus, aldehydic, floral, fresh air. Very powerful
Main Synonyms:
4-(4-methylpent-3-enyl)cyclohex-3-ene-1-carbaldehyde; empetaal; empetal; iso-hexenyl cyclopentenyl carbaldehyde; myracal; myraldeine; myraldene; myrcenal; myroldal; synflor; towanal; vertomugal
Typically powerful aldehyde impact, here with a distinctive fruity-orange character, with an exceptionally good ‘fresh-air’ quality. It is longer lasting than most too and can contribute to many types of fragrance particularly citrus, muguet and other floral types.
Interestingly this material has been on the market for a very long time, having originally been developed from research into insect repellents, but has only relatively recently become popular in fine fragrances.
The same aldehyde is produced by Givaudan (Empetal and Myraldene) and is also offered by many other manufacturers to various purity levels and mixtures of isomers but the material offered here is manufactured by IFF who give a typically short and simple description: “An aldehydic with orange, ozonic and fruity characteristics. Strong and persistent. Clean outdoors effect”
Arcadi Boix Camps, writing in 1978, mentions this material in the context of Aldehydes in general, saying that “...products like the so-called myrac aldehyde, with its greasy, citric, flowery scent, something like lauric aldehyde or the citronellal and geranyl oxyacetaldehydes, have interesting metallic flowery notes”.
Arctander describes the odour as: “Powerful and penetrating, waxy-citrusy, in dilution fresh-floral, clean and light odor with some resemblance to Dodecanal, Cyclamal and Myristic aldehyde.” He goes on to say that: “This aldehyde, marketed several decades ago, has taken a long time to become popular, and it is questionable if one can make that statement even today. It is beyond doubt, that the aldehyde has an excellent influence upon Bergamot and other citrusy odors, and that its effect includes the “aldehydic” top-note effect to a certain degree. It performs well in soap and adds freshness to a wide range of odor types from Pine needle to Muguet, from Violet to Lilac, etc. Its very low cost makes it a candidate for industrial masking, detergent fragrances and many other large-volume products. It blends well with Ionones and the CedarWood-like Cyclohexane derivatives in modern soap odors.” Finally he mentions that “The hydroxylated aldehyde, known under the name ‘Lyral’, is listed in this work as Hydroxymethyl-penty l-cyclohexene-carbox-aldehyde. It is far more successful than the title aldehyde, but it is in no way olfactorily related to it.”
It is produced to a minimum 96% purity (the current batch is over 99%), lasts about two days on a smelling strip and typical use levels range from tiny traces up to about 10% of the fragrance concentrate. As this is such a powerful material and so easy to overdose we also offer it at 10% in IPM.
airy, aldehydic, Aroma Chemicals, citrus, clean, floral, fresh, fruity, greasy, High impact materials, Ingredients for Perfumery, Liquids, marine, metallic, Molecules, orange, outdoors, ozone,
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Many of the descriptions contain quotations from the manufacturer of the product and in addition I have quoted fairly extensively from Arctander[1] and from Arcadi Boix Camps[2] – both independent writers and both highly experienced perfumers.
There are also some quotes from Bedoukian[3] where details of the chemistry of a material are significant and from Scent & Chemistry[4] the authors of which have taken an analytical approach to the art of perfumery that is unusual and very useful. Quotations have been included from the extremely useful teaching books by Calkin & Jellinek[5] and Curtis & Williams[6] and Surburg and Panten [7] as well.
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[1] Steffen Arctander: quotations are taken from Perfume and Flavor Chemicals published in 1969 and Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin published in 1961
[2] Arcadi Boix Camps: quotations are taken from Perfumery: Techniques in Evolution, 2nd Edition published in 2009, but containing material written in 1978, 1985, and 1999 as well – where relevant the date of writing is noted with the quotations.
[3] Bedoukian: quotations are taken from Perfume and Flavoring Synthetics, 3rd, Revised Edition by Paul Z. Bedoukian, Ch.E., Ph.D. Published in 1986.
[4] Scent & Chemistry by Ohloff, Pickenhagen and Kraft, published as a book of that name in 2012, from which I have quoted, but also referencing updates on their maintained Facebook page . In addition this tag is used in the descriptions for other works involving the same authors, including:
[5] Calkin & Jellinek: quotations are taken from Perfumery: practice and principles by Robert R. Calkin, J. Stephan Jellinek, published in 1994.
[6] Curtis & Williams: quotations are taken from An Introduction to Perfumery 2nd Edition, by Tony Curtis and David G Williams, published in 2001
[7] Surburg and Panten: quotations are taken from Common Fragrance and Flavor Materials. Preparation, Properties and Uses. 5th Edition by Horst Surburg and Johannes Panten (Copyright 2006 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim), published in 2006
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