Ambiguous entry — 'Benzyl' is not a complete material name. If shorthand for benzyl benzoate, it is a very faint, mildly sweet balsamic-woody liquid used mostly as a solvent/fixative with almost no distinct odor at use levels. Confirm the intended material (benzyl alcohol, benzyl benzoate, benzyl salicylate, benzyl acetate, etc.) before formulating.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 131.
Benzyl benzoate is used in flavor compositions partly as a fixative, e.g. imitation cheese, cherry, liquor, loganberry, muscat, nut, rum, pineapple, strawberry, etc.
Produced from sodium benzoate and benzyl chloride, sometimes using triethylamine as a catalyst.