Musk Xylene / Musk Xylol — a classic nitro musk with a sweet, warm, slightly powdery musky odor. Rounded and ambery with a soft balsamic sweetness, less animalic than musk ketone and cleaner in profile. Note: banned or restricted in modern perfumery for safety/environmental reasons.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 436.
Pale yellowish crystals.
Insoluble in water, poorly soluble in alcohol, soluble in most perfume oils.
Sweet musky odor, reminiscent of Musk Xylol, but not quite as harsh, and not quite as strong.
This Nitromusk — one of the original 'Baur Musks' can be classified as practically obsolete, brought out of use by superior Nitromusks and later by even more superior Indane-, Chromane or Tetralin musks, Macrocyclic musks, etc.
Produced from 2,4-Dimethyl-6-tertiary-butyl-phenyl glyoxylic acid plus Toluidine followed by Nitration of the aldehyde.