Intense, dark and pungent — a bitter, medicinal-phenolic character with strong leather and tobacco facets. Reads as animalic and slightly tarry, with an earthy, almost fecal edge at higher concentrations that mellows into a smoky, tanned-hide warmth on dry-down.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1226.
Colorless, hygroscopic liquid. Darkens upon storage.
0.6-0.5 soluble in water, soluble in hot water, miscible with alcohol and oils.
Heavy, penetrating and nauseating, yet sweet odor of good tenacity.
This material is occasionally used in trace amounts in perfume bases, artificial flower absolutes, etc. where its heavy sweetness may introduce certain amounts of the warm-floral notes, difficult to obtain with conventional materials.
Produced from (many methods) e. g. by Skraup’s synthesis from Aniline, Glycerol, and Nitrobenzene in the presence of sulfuric acid.