A warm phenolic-spicy note reminiscent of guaiacol and clove, with a smoky, slightly medicinal facet and a soft woody-sweet undertone. Less harsh than guaiacol itself, the ethoxy group adds a rounder, almost balsamic warmth.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 462.
Colorless or very pale straw-colored liquid.
Soluble in aqueous alkali. Very slightly soluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Extremely powerful, diffusive and intensely medicinal-phenolic, yet sweet and spicy-warm, remotely vanilla-like odor.
In dilutions below 2 ppm its taste is sweet and remotely vanilla-like.
This powerful odorant can be used in perfume compositions to emphasize leather-like odors, medicinal odors, or smoky-tobacco-like odors. It is an interesting modifier for the quinolines.
In flavors, it can be used to increase the power of Vanilla formulations and to reduce the overly sweet effect of Vanillin-Ethyl-vanillin, and as a modifier for Propenyl guaethol.
Produced by Monoethylation of Catechol with Diethylsulfate in aqueous alkaline solution.