A dense, sharply phenolic aromachemical reminiscent of creosote, birch tar and cresylic disinfectant. Dries down with a leathery, smoky, slightly animalic character with faint sweet-woody nuances. Extremely potent and long-lasting on a blotter, giving a dark, industrial-leather impression.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 94.
Crystal needles.
Very slightly soluble in water, soluble in alcohol, essential oils and most perfume chemicals.
Very dry phenolic - medicinal odor, sometimes described as leatherlike, but more appropriately tanning-odor.
Occasionally used in perfumery for Russian Leather effects (Cuir de Russie) or as a modifier for rectified Birch Tar oil which is a scarce and poorly available material.
Produced from several methods, e.g. tertiary-Amyl alcohol plus Phenol in presence of Aluminium chloride. Also by olefinic alkylation.