A dry, phenolic-medicinal aroma chemical reminiscent of tar, birch and smoked leather, with a slightly sweet-woody undertone. Less aggressive than pure cresol thanks to the heptyl ether, giving a smoother, more diffusive smoky-leathery character useful in leather and chypre accords.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 299.
Colorless liquid.
Insoluble in water. Soluble in alcohol and oils.
Peculiar metallic-green, smoky odor with oily-herbaceous undertones, remotely reminiscent of Lily flowers.
Occasionally used in Jasmin bases, Narcisse and Lily, mainly to introduce oily-herbaceous notes.
Produced from meta-Cresolsodium and n-Heptyliodide in aqueous solution.