A soft, clean floral-green material with a waxy, slightly camphoraceous undertone typical of substituted cyclohexanols. Reads as a muted lily-of-the-valley/rosy-green facet with a fresh, almost soapy cleanliness rather than a pronounced sweetness.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 489.
Colorless oily liquid.
Sweet, but rather pungent, gassy odor with a floral undertone.
This material is not used as such in perfumery, except perhaps in certain types of masking odors for industrial purposes. But it serves as an intermediate in making more interesting perfume chemicals. It was used in the early 1930's as a modifier in Hyacinth and other floral fragrance types.
Produced by catalytic hydrogenation of para-ethyl phenol.