Description and usage notes:
This is a powerful material, best used at less than 1%. Traces will add fresh, green top-notes to almost any fragrance type, slightly more will give an exotic, fruity-tropical tone to your composition
Description from Givaudan: “Melonal offers a powerful and unique note. It is effective in all types of fragrances and is invaluable in the creation of natural smelling marine and fruity-melon notes.”
According to Arcadi Boix Camps, writing in 1978, “Melon-fruity products are playing a decisive role in the current evolution of perfumery. Let us mention cis-6-nonenol, with an absolutely natural and intense melon character, which could lead to important innovations in the future.
Moreover, dimethyl heptenal, called Melonal, has a very interesting fresh, tart odor of melon. It should be treated with care because its effects are very intense. Ethyl-alpha-dimethyl hydrodynamic aldehyde, called Floralozone, imparts an unusual body in perfumes for fabric softeners, where it enhances the whole perfume in a very surprising way. It is interesting in rose-muguet blends with a top note of rose oxide.”
Also try this material in a 1:100 proportion with Isobutylthiazole (so 1 part of the 0.1% dilution of isobutylthiazole to 1 part of a 10% solution of Melonal) to get a very good illusion of the smell of ripe Cantaloupe melons. For even more veracity, add a little cis-6-nonenol and perhaps a little canthoxal and citrolate as well.
violettefeuilles –
Melonal, in dilution at 1% or less, is widely considered to be among the more natural of the green, melon, ozonic chemicals available to perfumers. Pure, it displays a coarse though stimulating odour of watermelon, violet leaf and chloramines (swimming pools). Beyond its obvious application in fruity-green marine florals, it works well in herbal chypres or with sweet, balsamic, woody notes (sandalwood). If properly balanced, it may also act to boost and extend the fruity aspect of certain spices, such as cardamom, clove bud and xanthoxylum.