A dry, slightly camphoraceous alcohol with a woody-piney character reminiscent of fenchone and camphor but softer and more rounded. Has an earthy, faintly sweet undertone that lends a natural forest-floor nuance to pine, lavender, and fougère accords.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 569.
Solid crystalline mass, colorless, translucent, occasionally pale straw-colored.
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol, miscible with oils.
Powerful and diffusive, camphor-like, but sweeter and more citrus-like, almost lime-like odor with more or less of an earthy-dry character, according to the composition and isomer-ratio.
The taste is somewhat bitter-lime-like, camphoraceous and slightly woody-musty.
This interesting alcohol (or mixed alcohols) finds use in perfume compositions ranging from woody or herbaceous to citrus-lime and even certain floral types. It produces power and lift to floral fragrances, and solid background to lime and other citrus bases, having the advantage over the terpenes in being very stable in soap.
Fenchyl alcohol is also used in flavor compositions such as strawberry and other berries, lime and spice, etc.
Produced by reduction of fenchone, which may be derived from cedarleaf oil or from other natural sources, or prepared synthetically from pine terpenes. One French manufacturer uses hydration of turpentine under acid conditions to produce the alcohol.