A sweet, creamy vanilla-like odor with a distinct phenolic and slightly smoky facet. Softer and more balsamic than vanillin, with a powdery, almost woody-guaiacol undertone that lingers.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 24.
White crystals or powder.
Soluble in alcohol, essential oils and perfume chemicals. Slightly soluble in water at room temperature Easily soluble in hot water.
Faint, sweet odor, remotely reminiscent of Vanillin, but less spicy, somewhat fresher.
Could find some use as a fixative in perfumery, but lends little odor to the compounds in which it is incorporated.
Not known to be used in flavors. Aceto- vanillone is a cardiac stimulant and a diuretic.
Produced synthetically by methylation of 3,4-Dihydroxy acetophenone. Also from Guaiacol acetate with Zinc chloride and Acetic anhydride. Can be isolated from the extract of the roots of Indian hemp, Apocynum cannabinum L.