A pungent, phenolic aroma with a smoky, tar-like character reminiscent of birch and leather. In dilution it reveals a narcotic floral facet close to narcissus and ylang, with an animalic, almost fecal undertone that adds naturalistic depth to white florals.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 298.
Colorless liquid.
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Powerful, pungent-floral, deep-sweet, warm odor, suggestive of Ylang-Ylang, Pandanus and other exotic flowers.
Useful in perfume compositions of the heavy-floral type, in artificial Ylang-Ylang, in various types of soap perfume and, in general as a floralizer with considerable power.
Produced from para-Cresol in diluted aqueous alkaline solution with Diethyl sulfate at about 30° reaction temperature followed by heating and steam distillation of the resulting ether.