A soft, sweet clove-like odor with a creamy floral-balsamic warmth. Less sharp and phenolic than iso-eugenol itself, it reads as a rounded carnation-clove note with subtle powdery and slightly woody facets that persist for a long time on the blotter.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 82.
Pale yellowish, very viscous liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol, perfume and flavor materials, poorly soluble in propylene glycol.
Heavy-sweet, balsamic-floral and very faintly spicy odor of exceptional tenacity.
Useful in perfumes as a modifier for other iso-Eugenol derivatives, in Carnation, Tuberose, Narcisse, Ylang-Ylang, Champaca, certain types of Rose and many other florals. [t will also act as a fixative blender, and performs very well with Patchouli, Vetiver, Oakmoss and other Chypre materials.
Finds some use in flavor compositions for imitation Chocolate (Cocoa), Vanilla, Butterscotch, Caramel, etc.
Produced from iso-Eugenol in alcoholic Potassium hydroxide solution with Amyl bromide, or by isomerization of Amy] eugenol.