Phenetole (ethyl phenyl ether) has a warm, sweet anisic-phenolic odor reminiscent of anise and geranium, with a slightly balsamic aromatic undertone. In dilution it reads clean and diffusive, similar to anethole but drier and less licorice-like.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 49.
Colorless oily liquid
Weak, anisic, sweet odor, more pungent than Anethole, less sweet or mild
Somewhat medicinal-sweet or spicy taste
This ether could find use in perfumes as a sweetening fixative or as a modifier for Estragole (Methyl chavicol).
Prod. by ethylation of Chavicol with Diethyl sulfate.