Extremely powerful sulfur aroma chemical with an intensely roasted coffee character — burnt, meaty, and savory with nutty coffee-bean facets. At perceptible dilution it reads as freshly ground dark-roast coffee with a slightly rubbery, sulfury edge; overdosed it becomes acrid and gasoline-like.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 376.
Pale yellowish oily liquid.
Slightly soluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Powerful, repulsively sulfuraceous (sulfide-like) odor, only in extreme dilution becoming attractive, caramellic-burnt, 'roasted' odor.
This chemical has been made available recently after its being identified in the volatile oil from roasted coffee.
It has found use in the flavor bases which are used to re-constitute the aroma of instant coffee and other coffee products. It is also used in imitation coffee flavor.
Produced from Furfural and Hydrogen sulfide gas.