Aroma Chemicals
Hydroxycitronellol has no known odor.
Odor Strength
Low
Odor Type
Floral
No functional profile data available.
No formula context data available.
Luebke, William tgsc, (1990): Mild clean floral lily green peony
Moellhausen: Mild fresh-clean floral, closer to rose than to muguet
Pell Wall Perfumes: Floral-muguet and rose, fresh, sweet. very mild; fixative; blender
Arctander tells us that it: “is used in perfume compositions originally with the intention of stabilizing hydroxycitronellal and prolonging the odor life of that aldehyde in compositions.