Hexenyl salicylate

Vanilla-Sweet Hexyl salicylate 67.s-3-Hexenyl salicylate... 

Moment Supreme, in combination with jasmin, rose, eugenol, clove, coumarin, and vetiveryl acetate, and with oakmoss in fougeres such as Fougere Royal, and Canoe. Few of these perfumes have survived in their original form, and amyl salicylate has largely fallen out of favor as a major structural component in fine perfumery, its place having been taken by the more elegant c/.s-3-hexenyl salicylate. 

Among the most important of these structural differences are the introduction of cis-3-hexenyl salicylate (6%) replacing part of the benzyl salicylate, and the replacement of hydroxycitronellal by Lyral (8%). Both changes are in keeping with the green, floral direction of the perfume. The woody and musk notes have also been modified and augmented by the introduction of newer materials such as Vertofix (3%) and ambrettolide. 

Hedione, cA-3-hexenyl salicylate, and benzyl salicylate (6%) are again important, with Galaxolide (5%) introduced as part of the musk complex in conjunction with musk ketone, cyclopentadecanolide, and Tonalid. It is common practice among perfumers today to use a combination of synthetic musk materials, usually of chemically different types, rather than just one. As with the green notes this complexity gives a more natural and interesting effect. 

As we would expect in a perfume as distantly related in time as Opium is to both Shalimar and Youth Dew, a number of more modem materials have been introduced. The cis-3-hexenyl salicylate backs up the benzyl salicylate, and Lyral, the hydroxycitronellal. A small amount of Hedione is also included. There have been important developments to the rose aspect of the perfume with the addition of phenylethyl dimethyl carbinol (3%) and Centifolyl. The fresh character of the rose derives from the use of geranyl acetate. Unlike the earlier oriental perfumes there is also an important aldehydic note. 

Not all new materials are entirely new. Many are, in their odor character, reminiscent of familiar ones the very first perfumer who smelled Lyral, for example, must have recognized its similarity to hydroxycitronellal. Others resemble familiar ones not only in their odor but also in the chemical structure c/.s-3-hexenyl salicylate was bound to find its place, if it had any at all, within the general area of the earlier known salicylates. 

Van Ketel WG (1983) Sensitization to cis-3-hexenyl salicylate. Contact Dermatitis 9 154-155... 

CS018 Moon, ]. H., N. Watanabe, Y. Ijima, A. Yagi and K. Sakata. Cis-and trans-linalool 3,7-oxides and methyl salicylate glycosides and (Z)-3-hexenyl beta-D-glucopyranoside as aroma precursors from tea leaves of oolong tea. Biosci Biotech Biochem 1996 60(11) 1815-1819. 

Female antennae detected small amounts of ( )- -farnesene, (Z, )-a-farne-sene, methyl salicylate and germacrene D, while other more abundant compounds, such as (3Z)-hexenyl acetate and ( )- -ocimene, gave no significant antennal response [378]. 

The Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata, is one of the most serious pests of potato. Two-component blends of three chemicals, (Z)-3-hexenyl acetate, ( )-linalool, and methyl salicylate, are attractive to L. decemlineata when (Z)-3-hexenyl acetate is one of the components of the blend,45 but individual compounds are inactive. Low levels of (Z)-3-hexen-l-ol and ( )-2-hexen-l-ol can substitute for (Z)-3-hexenyl... 

Hexenal cis-3-Hexenol cis-3-Hexenyl butyrate Hexyl tiglate Homolinalool Homolinalyl acetate Hydrocinnamaldehyde Hydrocinnamic alcohol Hydroxycitronellal diethyl acetal Hydroxycitronellal dimethyl acetal Hydroxycitronellal methyl anthranilate Hyssop (Hyssopus officinalis) oil Isoamyl acetate Isoamyl phenethyl ether Isoamyl salicylate Isobornyl formate Isobutyl anqelate Isobutyl benzoate ,Isobutyl phenylacetate 2-lsobutylquinoline Isobutyl salicylate... 

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