A warm, spicy-phenolic aroma reminiscent of betel leaf and clove, with a slightly leathery, smoky facet. Dry and pungent in isolation, softening into a woody-balsamic undertone.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 152.
Colorless liquid. Solidifies in the cold, melts at 9°C.
Powerful, sweet-medicinal-spicy odor, reminiscent of tanned leather, smoke and dry wood. In dilution reminiscent of the smokey-dry odor of Chinese tea.
Could find some use in perfume formulation where 'leather' notes are desirable, as a modifier for Ethacol, Eugenol, Creosol and other phenolic ethers, and as a companion to Cade oil fractions, Birch Tar oil fractions, etc.
Produced from betelphenol which is the chief component of the natural Betel oil, can be produced synthetically from Methyl eugenol by treatment with Methyl Magnesium Iodide.