Extremely pungent, offensive sulfurous smell reminiscent of rotten eggs mixed with ammonia and fecal notes. Not a conventional perfumery material — used only at trace dilutions in specialty reconstructions where its foul character disappears and lends realism to blackcurrant, tropical fruit, or animalic accords.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 59.
Colorless or pale yellowish liquid. Forms crystals at temperatures below 0° C.
Very soluble in water, almost insoluble in alcohol and oils.
Its strong odor is mainly due to decomposition which takes place even at room temperature.
This chemical is reported used in food products at concentrations of about 5 ppm (in the finished consumer product). Mostly in spice blends.