A pungent phenolic aromachemical with a smoky, tar-like character reminiscent of creosote, birch tar, and leather. Has a distinct medicinal, almost inky facet with dry woody undertones. Used in trace amounts to add smoky-leather nuances to leather, oud, and tobacco accords.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 541.
Colorless liquid.
Slightly soluble in water, miscible with alcohol and oils.
Semi-sweet, tarry-medicinal odor, sweeter than that of phenol and more tar-like, smokey.
Warm and pungent taste, burning sensation unless highly diluted.
The subject phenol could find some use in the temporarily modern 'leather'-like fragrance types for men, and in various bases requiring smokey or leather-like notes.
1) by isolation from Birch tar Creosote. 2) from ortho-Ethylbenzene sulfonic acid by alkali fusion.