A warm, phenolic-floral aromachemical with a distinctly medicinal edge reminiscent of anise and clove tops fading into a soft carnation-like floralcy. Has a slightly narcotic, honey-tinged undertone that lends body to floral accords without the harshness of pure cresols.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 301.
Colorless liquid, solidifying in the cold.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol, miscible with perfume oils.
Somewhat harsh-metallic, odor of good tenacity.
Very rarely used in perfumery, seldom offered commercially.
Produced by heating meta-Chlorotoluene with Chlorobenzene and aqueous alkali under pressure to about 300° C.