This is Musk Xylene (Musk Xylol), a classic nitro-musk. It smells sweet, warm and powdery with a soft animalic-musky character, faintly balsamic, with a clean laundered-linen facet. Very tenacious on blotter and used historically as a fixative, though now largely banned in fragrance for toxicity/persistence reasons.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 232.
Pale yellowish crystalline powder.
Strong, sweet musky odor of considerable tenacity.
Produced from tertiary-Butyl-meta-xylol.