Also known as 1,3-benzodioxole or methylenedioxybenzene — a warm, sweet phenolic aroma with vanillic and mildly spicy facets, reminiscent of heliotropin and safrole precursors. Has a slightly medicinal, resinous nuance underneath the sweetness.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 248.
Colorless liquid
Pleasant, sweet, floral odor, remotely resembling Anise and Heliotrope, but more diffusive and of poor tenacity
Suggested for use in perfume compositions
1) from Pyrocatechol plus Methylene chloride with Sodium ethoxide in Ethyl alcohol. 2) from Pyrocatechol in weak aqueous Sodium hydroxide solution with Methylene iodide.