A dry, phenolic aroma chemical with a distinctly leathery, smoky character reminiscent of birch tar or creosote softened by an alkyl-phenol woodiness. Over time it settles into a tenacious dry-wood and cade-like nuance with a faint animalic edge.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 191.
Colorless oily liquid, yellowish after exposure to air and daylight.
Slightly soluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Powerful, but not very pleasant 'tanning' type of odor, sometimes described as 'Oak-moss-like' — at other times described as 'Cuir de Russie' type. Most observers will agree that the odor is distinctly phenolic, very dry and almost woody, tarry.
There are many other better odorants in this fragrance class and it is most likely that the subject phenol will remain a curiosity, not commercially available.
Produced from iso-Butylene plus Xylenol, using Phosphoric acid as a condensing agent.