Ethylene glycol monoethyl ether (2-ethoxyethanol / Cellosolve) is an industrial glycol ether solvent with a faint, sweet, ethereal odor reminiscent of ether or mild alcohol. It has essentially no perfumery character and is not used as an odorant — it is a solvent/carrier, and moreover is a restricted reprotoxic substance not permitted in cosmetics.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Colorless liquid.
Miscible with water, alcohol and most perfume oils.
Commercial grade material has a faint earthy, mushroom-like odor, but very pure analytical grades seem to be virtually odorless.
Its taste in water is bitter at concentrations of more than 50 ppm.
Used as a solvent, diluent for perfumes, mainly for masking odors, industrial fragrances, etc., often as a co-solvent or a more or less necessary carrier vehicle to introduce the fragrance in another type of liquid.
It is less toxic than Ethylene glycol, but it is banned from use in food flavors in most countries.
Produced from Ethanol and Ethylene chloride, heated with Sodium acetate.