Benzhydrol (diphenylmethanol) has a very faint, mild floral-aromatic odor with a subtle sweet, slightly rosy-geranium nuance. It is more commonly valued in perfumery as a crystalline fixative than as an odor contributor, lending soft persistence without adding much character.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 124.
White or colorless crystals.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol, miscible with oils.
The crystals have a very faint musty-rosy odor, somewhat similar to that of Benzophenone and Trichloromethyl phenyl carbinyl acetate.
In the author’s opinion, this material has little, if any, use in perfumes or flavors.
Produced by reduction of Benzophenone, e.g. with zinc in aqueous alkali.