Cumene (isopropylbenzene) smells sharp, solvent-like and petroleum-adjacent — a thin aromatic hydrocarbon note reminiscent of gasoline or paint thinner with a faint sweet benzene edge. It is not a perfumery aroma chemical in the usual sense; it flashes off quickly leaving little trace.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 311.
Colorless mobile liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol, miscible with oils, almost insoluble in Propylene glycol.
Pungent, slightly green-sharp, kerosene-like odor of poor tenacity.
Occasionally used as a masking agent in industrial perfumes, also as a trace additive in certain artificial essential oils.
Produced from Propylene and Benzol in the presence of Aluminium chloride or Boron trifluoride. Also isolated from Coal tar (petroleum) distillate.