Ethylene glycol is a viscous, hygroscopic solvent that is essentially odorless in isolation, with at most a very faint slightly sweet character. It has no perfumery value as an odorant and is not used as a fragrance ingredient — its inclusion in a formula would be as a solvent or carrier, not for scent.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 495.
Colorless, somewhat viscous liquid
Miscible with water and alcohol, soluble in lower aliphatic alcohols and ketones, poorly soluble in hydrocarbons such as terpenes as well as in terpene alcohols, esters, etc.
Faint, musty odor
Warm and sweet taste in water
This material serves as a solvent in perfumery, but has mostly been replaced by more versatile solvents such as triethylene glycol, dipropylene glycol, hexylene glycol, etc.
Ethylene glycol has been used as a diluent for flavor compositions but the use of this glycol in food products has been abandoned in most countries now.
Produced from ethylene oxide by hydration.