• Perfumery

    Rabbit Ear Aldehyde…

    A while ago there was an article on LinkedIn discussing the removal of butylphenyl methylpropional and hydroxyisohexyl 3-cyclohexene carboxaldehyde (HICC) from the Perfumers’ Palette due to regulations, and the use of floral pyranol, as one of the aroma chemicals that can be used instead to create a lily of the valley note. But there was mentioned in this article, “rabbit ear aldehyde” and as I’m a chemist as well as a perfumer, I’d love to know what molecule this relates to. It is presumably another lily note. Could it be cyclamen aldehyde, because that has a structure such that in it’s molecular diagram, the carbons and the branching are a…