Phenyl benzoate is a mild, faintly sweet balsamic material with a soft floral-powdery character reminiscent of a very diluted heliotropin-benzoin facet. On a blotter it reads quiet and waxy with a subtle almond-like undertone, and it hangs on as a discreet background note rather than projecting.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1089.
Colorless prismatic crystals
Very slightly soluble in water, poorly soluble in cold alcohol, soluble in hot alcohol and oils
Very faint, balsamic-floral, metallic-green odor of excellent tenacity
This material could serve as a fixative in perfume compositions, but it does not present any advantage over the conventional crystalline fixatives of similar odor type.
Produced from Phenolsodium and Benzoyl-chloride