Extremely powerful sulfurous material with an intense roasted-coffee and burnt character. In trace dilution it reads as freshly ground coffee and dark roasted notes; neat it is aggressive, gassy, and repellent. Used at ppm-level dosages in coffee, gourmand, and certain leather/animalic accords.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 144.
Colorless or pale straw-colored mobile liquid.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in oils.
The odor is most frequently described as 'Leek-like', which is a more exact description than the older, still common 'onion-like'. It has the sharpness of Leek odor, yet not lachrymatory.
This sulfur compound has been suggested for use and is actually used in Coffee imitation flavor. Concentration is usually mere traces.
Produced from Benzyl chloride plus Potassium hydrosulfide.