Sharp, clean alcoholic smell with a slight sweetness and a cool sting to the nose. Essentially the neutral perfumery solvent — no character of its own beyond the ethanol bite, which flashes off quickly to leave the fragrance materials it carries.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Other ingredients whose composition declares this material as a constituent. The percentage shown is the supplier-declared concentration in that parent.
| Ingredient | % | Range |
|---|---|---|
| ALCOHOL DENATURED | — | 50–100% |
| CASSIS BASE 10% | — | 50–100% |
| HO WOOD OIL 10% | — | 50–100% |
| VANILLIN 1% IN ETHANOL | — | 50–100% |
| YLANG YLANG OIL-COMPLETE 10% | — | 50–100% |
| OAKWOOD BASE (VENTOS) | — | 1–10% |
| BLACK PEPPER ABSOLUTE | — | 1–2.5% |
| ROSE ABSOLUTE CENTIFOLIA | — | 0.1–1% |
| BENZOIN SIAM RESINOID 50% TEC | — | — |
| COCONUT CO2 JUNGLE ESSENCE | — | — |
| IMMORTELLE ABSOLUTE | — | — |
| TOBACCO ABSOLUTE MD | — | — |
| TONKA BEAN ABSOLUTE 10% | — | — |
| TUBEROSE “SIGNATURE” ABSOLUTE | — | — |
Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 466.
Colorless mobile liquid.
Miscible with water, propylene glycol, glycerin, perfume oils and most flavor oils, not with all hydrocarbons.
The odor is sweet-ethereal, mild and it is perceptible in aqueous solutions down to about 12° alcohol and room temperature.
Ethyl alcohol is used in perfumery almost exclusively as a solvent and for that purpose a denatured alcohol is required by law in most countries.
Ethyl alcohol finds use in flavors also as an extraction solvent for natural materials and as an inhibitor against the growth of microorganisms.