A warm, herbal-spicy material with a cumin-like aromatic character and a faint phenolic-acidic edge. Sits in the heart with a dry, slightly sweaty warmth reminiscent of cumin and thyme rather than any bright top note.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 312.
Colorless or white crystals.
Very slightly soluble in water, soluble in alcohol and most oils.
When absolutely pure, the material is virtually odorless, but the scarce commercial lots have shown a distinctly herbaceous odor of considerable tenacity.
Mildly acidulous and green-herbaceous taste.
The subject material has been mentioned in perfumery literature as suggested for use in perfume compositions.
Produced from (several methods) e. g. by oxidation of para-iso-Propyl phenylacetaldehyde (a common perfume chemical).