Sharp, musty amine odor with a fishy, slightly rotten character. Not typically used in perfumery — aniline is an industrial aromatic amine with a pungent, unpleasant smell and significant toxicity concerns.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 108.
Colorless oily liquid, solidifying in the cold.
Soluble in cold water, slightly better in hot water. Miscible with alcohol and oils.
When absolutely pure, this material has a warm, sweet and actually pleasant odor in suitable dilution.
This Amine has been suggested for use in Oriental fragrances, but the author hopes that it stays with the suggestion only.
Produced from Benzene via Nitrobenzene, followed by reduction with Iron in Hydrochloric acid to Aniline.