Furan is a highly volatile heterocyclic solvent with a sharp, ethereal, almost chloroform-like odor. It flashes off quickly leaving little residue and has no real perfumery use in isolation — it's a chemical curiosity rather than a fragrance material.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 579.
Colorless liquid.
Soluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Peculiar spicy-smokey, slightly cinnamon-like odor.
This oxide is occasionally used in the composing of artificial essential oils. It finds a little - rare - use in industrial fragrances for certain masking purposes, e.g. when the problem is: to mask very volatile, undesirable odors. Occasionally, this item is used in special fragrances such as 'smokey' odors for certain products, directly or indirectly connected with food products.
Produced by decarboxylation of Furoic acid. Furan can also be prepared directly from Furfural.