A heavy, tenacious base note derived from cashew nutshell liquid. Warm, dry-woody and faintly phenolic with balsamic, slightly smoky facets — used as a natural fixative with a soft leathery undertone.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 238.
Colorless viscous liquid
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol, miscible with oils, but not in all proportions.
Dry, pleasant 'Russian-leather' type of considerable tenacity
Used in fragrances where a 'non-phenolic' or 'non-medicinal' type of leather odor is called for
Produced by benzoylation of Cardanol, a phenol isolated from the oil of the Cashew-nut shell