Tert-butylbenzene has a mild, sweet aromatic-hydrocarbon odor reminiscent of benzene or toluene with a faint balsamic-woody undertone. It smells more like an industrial solvent than a perfumery material and has little olfactory complexity.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 174.
Colorless mobile liquid
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils
Peculiar camphoraceous-earthy, aromatic odor, remotely reminiscent of the odor of Carrot seed
Has been suggested for use as a perfume chemical, but the author believes that there is very little, if any, use of this material in today’s perfumery
Produced from Trimethyl pentane plus Benzene, using Aluminum chloride catalyst, or by a Friedel-Craft type reaction with tertiary-Butylchloride plus Benzene