Cyclohexyl methanol (hexahydrobenzyl alcohol) has a mild, fresh woody-camphoraceous odor with a faintly minty, green nuance. It reads clean and slightly aromatic, without much sweetness or floralcy, and functions as a soft transparent modifier.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 329.
Colorless oily liquid.
Very slightly soluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Musty-champhoraceous, slightly minty odor, remotely reminiscent of part of the Patchouli odor-picture.
Has found some use in soap perfume compositions, partly due to its good stability. It introduces good power and diffusion in Pine, Wood and Leather notes, and blends well with Cedarwood, lonones, Rose chemicals, etc.
Produced by catalytic hydrogenation of Methylbenzyl ether.