A soft, tenacious clove-balsamic note with muted eugenol character — the sharp phenolic edge of eugenol is subdued by benzoylation, leaving a warm, sweet, slightly powdery spice with balsamic-floral facets. Functions largely as a fixative with a gentle carnation-clove undertone.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 127.
White or almost white crystalline powder or colorless crystals.
Insoluble in water, soluble in hot alcohol and many oils, but poorly soluble in cold alcohol.
Very mild balsamic-spicy odor of great tenacity and warm undertones. The spicy notes are more pronounced in older material. Freshly prepared material may be almost odorless.
Eugenol benzoate finds some use in flavor compositions, e.g. various spice and fruit complexes. Its low rate of evaporation makes it suitable for fixation in flavors for baked goods, etc.
This material finds a little use in perfume compositions, but its poor solubility is a disadvantage.
Concentration is usually about 10 ppm in the finished product.
Produced from Benzoyl chloride and Eugenol-sodium.