A pungent, alcoholic top note reminiscent of crude spirits and distillation residues — sharp, solventy and fermented with a rough fruity-oily undertone. Fades relatively quickly leaving a slightly greasy, whisky-like note.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 584.
Fusel oil is usually a colorless oily liquid.
slightly soluble in water, miscible with alcohol and most oils.
Vinous-ethereal, at times pungent, sometimes mild, oily smelling with considerable variations according to origin.
It is used in certain artificial essential oils.
Fusel oil finds use in flavor compositions, mainly in imitation Wine, Cognac, Liqueur, Brandy, Rum, Arak, etc.
Fusel oil is made by distillation of the pot residue after distillation of Rum or other sugar- or starch-fermented alcoholic distilled beverages.