1,4-Dioxane has a faint, ether-like odor with a mild sweetness — reminiscent of diethyl ether but softer and more rounded. It is primarily a solvent rather than a perfumery aroma chemical, with little olfactory character beyond a clean, slightly sweet ethereal note.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 437.
Colorless liquid, solidifying in the cold.
Hygroscopic and miscible with water. Soluble in alcohol and oils.
Very sweet, mild-ethereal odor.
Although not directly a perfume material, this chemical is mentioned because it occasionally is used as an extraction solvent for perfume raw materials. Traces of the solvent may remain in the commercial product and influence the odor of the natural extract.
Produced by etherification (dehydration) of ethylene glycol.