Dulcin (p-ethoxyphenylurea) is a historical artificial sweetener with a faint, sweet, powdery-vanillic odor reminiscent of coumarin and heliotropin facets. On a blotter it reads as a soft, slightly balsamic sweetness with almondy nuances, more a taste-adjacent impression than a strong aroma.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 458.
Colorless and odorless, needlelike crystals or white crystalline powder.
Soluble 0.1° in cold water, 2° in boiling water, 4° in alcohol, insoluble in most oils.
Intensely sweet taste, approximately 250 times sweeter than cane sugar when compared in dilution.
A classic among the non-caloric sweetening agents for human food preparations, Dulcin is no longer important.
Produced from para-Phenetidine plus carbonyl chloride, followed by treatment with ammonia.