Iso-butyl phenyl ether has a soft floral-anisic character with a green, slightly sweet phenolic undertone. It reads as a delicate hyacinth/lilac-like note with an ether-typical airy, slightly narcotic quality. Diffusive but not aggressive, it lends lift and a natural floral roundness to compositions.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 216.
Colorless liquid.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Harsh-chemical odor, sweet, but with metallic-chemical background, remotely reminiscent of Anise.
Could find some use in industrial masking odors on account of its power and fair tenacity.
Produced from Sodium phenoxide with iso-Butylbromide in warm alcoholic solution - or: from iso-Butanol plus Phenol as vapors over catalyst at 420°C.