Most likely Dimethyl Phenyl Ethyl Carbinol (Dimetol) — a soft, fresh floral alcohol with a rosy-muguet character, mildly green and slightly citrus-tinged on top. Diffusive and clean rather than heady, useful as a lift in lily-of-the-valley and light rose accords.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 425.
Colorless, slightly oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Sweet-fruity, heavy, Apricot-Peach-Plum-like odor with a rather dry, woody-green undertone.
Somewhat green and slightly dry, Banana-Peach-Plum-like taste.
Finds some use in perfume compositions as a modifier for the carbinol or its acetate, e.g. useful in perfumery for Clary Sage variations in Fougéres, Chypres, Lavender compositions, and as a green-floral undertone and variant in Gardenia or Tuberose.
Produced directly from Dimethyl phenylcarbinol and Acetic acid or Acetic anhydride.