Peach Aldehyde

Note Profile

Botanical

Also Known As

Peach Lactone

About

Peach Aldehyde is a trade name for gamma-undecalactone (CAS 104-67-6), also sold as Aldehyde C-14. It is not an aldehyde at all, which is why suppliers list it as 'so-called'. It smells of rich, fatty, creamy peach and apricot, with coconut, vanilla and a nutty macadamia edge.

Scent Profile

Lactonic leads and it is what the molecule is. Scentspiracy files the odour type as 'Fruity-lactonic' and describes 'rich, creamy peach-like aroma with fatty, lactonic undertones'. Fraterworks repeats it with 'creamy, fatty lactonic undertones'. Fruity is the peach and apricot: 'Powerful peach note' and 'rich peach and apricot notes'. It stays below the lactonic because all three sources put the creamy-fatty character first. Sweet vanillic is the vanilla facet named by two sources. Tropical is coconut, which all three name. Nutty is 'nutty, macadamia' from the Perfumer's Apprentice listing.

ScentWheel

Breadthmedium

EnvelopeBase · ~12h lasting

Family Sweet & Gourmand, Fruity

Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.

Origin

Synthetic. It is a gamma lactone made industrially, first used in perfumery in the early twentieth century, and it carried the misleading name Aldehyde C-14 from that period. Other trade names are Persicol and Abriceine. The Perfumer's Apprentice sells it as 'Aldehyde C-14 (peach) so called'.

Usage in Perfumery

The standard peach material. It is the molecule cited inside the published peach, peach-cream and peach-skin notes, and it builds apricot and coconut effects as well. It is powerful and is used at low levels; overdosed it turns fatty and soapy. Two Parfumo placements across two brands are recorded and no Fragrantica placements.