A powerfully sweet, oily bitter-almond odor reminiscent of marzipan or benzaldehyde, but heavier and more chemical. Historically used in cheap soap perfumery under the name 'essence of mirbane', it is now banned in fragrance due to severe toxicity.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1010.
Pale yellowish mobile liquid.
0.2% soluble in water, miscible with alcohol and oils.
Pungent and harsh or offensive, bitter-almond type odor of poor tenacity.
The material is not and should not be classified as a fragrance material.
Produced by nitration of benzene with sulfuric- and nitric acid mixture.