A pungent, strongly phenolic aroma chemical with a tar-like, smoky character reminiscent of coal-tar soap, creosote and warm leather. In dilution it lends a dirty, animalic-leather nuance with faint horse-stable and medicinal facets.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 296.
Colorless liquid.
Soluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Dry-tarry, medicinal-leathery odor, conventionally described as 'phenolic'.
Useful as a floralizing companion to Indol in sharp-exotic flower fragrances, Lily, Narcisse, etc.
Produced from coal tar cresolic mixture, by fractionated distillation. Or by reduction of meta-Hydroxy benzaldehyde.