A warm, spicy-floral note reminiscent of clove and carnation, softer and sweeter than eugenol itself. It has a rounded balsamic-woody undertone with a slightly powdery, honeyed facet that lingers into the drydown.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 563.
Pale yellowish, viscous liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Intensely sweet, Vanilla-Clove-like odor, overall warm and mild, but extremely tenacious and with Honey-tobacco-like undertones.
Fruity taste in proper dilution (less than 5 ppm).
This material is occasionally used in perfume compositions as a modifier in Carnation bases, where a particularly delicate and discrete Spice-note is desirable, and iso-Eugenol does not cover the full olfactory picture. However, the iso-Eugenyl ester is generally preferred over this material. It finds some use in Lilac bases where it may introduce the warm and rich undertones, often difficult to obtain.
It is used in trace amounts in various Spice blends and imitation fruit and Honey flavors, particularly those intended for baked goods.
Produced from Phenylacetyl chloride and Sodium eugenol.