A warm, sweet-spicy clove-like odor reminiscent of eugenol but softer, less pungent and more balsamic-floral. The phenolic bite of eugenol is muted, leaving a rounded carnation-clove character with mild woody-balsamic undertones that persist well on the blotter.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 138.
Colorless prismatic crystals.
Insoluble in water, poorly soluble in Propylene glycol, somewhat soluble in alcohol, soluble in oils.
Very faint, warm-spicy odor with a haylike undertone.
Mainly used as a fixative in heavy floral fragrance types, in carnation and many types of spicy fragrances, and as a sweetener along with Rose fragrances, etc.
Produced from Benzyl chloride and Eugenol in alcoholic Potassium hydroxide (e. g. first step in making the isomer).