A softer, sweeter, more floral cousin of eugenol — warm clove-like spice without the sharp phenolic bite, drifting into a mild carnation and balsamic-woody facet. Rounder and more diffusive than eugenol, with a slightly powdery sweetness in the drydown.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 501.
Colorless oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol, miscible with oils. Poorly soluble in propylene glycol.
Somewhat musty, but sweet, herbaceous, tea-like, warm and delicately spicy odor. It is milder than methyleugenol and less interesting as a perfume chemical.
This ether has been suggested for use in perfume compositions as a modifier in carnation fragrances, in ylang-ylang compositions, in wallflower bases, and in general along with other eugenol derivatives in warm, oriental fragrance types. It blends particularly well with patchouli oil, bay leaf oil, pimenta berry oil, etc. and creates interesting notes with vetiver.
Produced by ethylation of eugenol, e.g. with diethyl sulfate in weak alkaline solution of eugenol.