A softer, sweeter, and less pungent version of eugenol — warm clove-like spice with a smoother, slightly fruity-balsamic facet and reduced medicinal harshness. The phenolic bite is muted, leaving a rounded carnation-clove impression that blends easily into florals.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 562.
Colorless or very pale yellowish oily liquid.
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils, somewhat soluble in propylene glycol.
Warm-woody, somewhat dry odor with a remote resemblance to orris and a fresh-spicy, slightly green undertone.
The taste is warm, somewhat dry, woody and remotely spicy.
This comparatively rare chemical is occasionally used in perfume formulations when variations in the conventional spice theme are desirable. It blends well with the woody notes, but not so attractively with the floral types.
Eugenyl formate finds a little use in flavor compositions as part of various types of spice blends. The concentrations used is normally limited to mere traces.
Produced by formylation of Eugenol.