A soft, sweet anisic aroma reminiscent of anise and fennel but rounder and less sharp than anethole itself. The reduction of the propenyl double bond mutes the licorice bite and reveals a warmer, slightly balsamic-herbal facet.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 378.
Colorless liquid.
Very slightly soluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Sweet-herbaceous, quite powerful odor, less candylike and more dry, almost woody, as compared to Anethole.
The taste is sweet and typical anisic, yet not as intensely sweet as Anethole, and it lacks the typical Anethole feature of a very wide margin of concentration in application, particularly in flavor compositions.
It finds some application in perfume compositions, particularly in low-cost masking odors for industrial purposes, detergent perfumes, household fragrances, etc.
It is used in flavor compositions for Licorice, Rootbeer, Birchbeer, Spice blends, Vanilla imitation, Wintergreen, etc.
1) by hydrogenation of Anethole. 2) by methylation of para-Propyl phenol.