Guaiacol ethyl ether (2-ethoxyphenol) has a warm phenolic character reminiscent of guaiacol but softer and sweeter, with smoky-woody facets and a hint of clove-like spice. Less medicinal and harsh than guaiacol itself, showing a rounder balsamic, vaguely vanillic undertone.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 609.
Colorless or pale straw-colored oily liquid.
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol, miscible with oils. Poorly soluble in Propylene glycol.
Very sweet, earthy-herbaceous, somewhat musty-walnut-like odor of fair tenacity.
This mixed ether, which is rarely offered commercially, could find some use in perfume formulations as a modifier for Coumarin or Hydroquinone dimethylether.
Produced by ethylation of guaiacol with diethyl sulfate in aqueous alkaline solution.