A heavy, narcotic white-floral material with a waxy, honey-like sweetness and a faint animalic undertone. Recalls the indolic side of ylang, tuberose and narcissus, with a slightly fermented, over-ripe petal facet. Powerful in small doses and gives depth to white-floral accords.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 309.
Colorless liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Animal-floral odor, sometimes described as musky.
Finds some use as a modifier for civet products, along with phenylacetic acid and its derivatives. Can give good effects in rose bases of the 'Oriental' type.
Produced from para-Cresol plus n-Valeric acid with phosphoroxychloride.