Guaiacyl acetate has a warm, smoky-phenolic character reminiscent of guaiacol but softer and more rounded by its acetate ester. Woody and slightly spicy with balsamic and faintly floral facets, it lends a smoked-wood or campfire nuance without the harsh medicinal bite of free guaiacol.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 609.
Almost colorless or pale straw-colored oily liquid.
Very slightly soluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Woody, dry, slightly green odor with variable amounts of a medicinal note, according to purity of the chemical.
This Acetate could possibly find use in Blackcurrant and similar flavors.
Overall rather uninteresting, and it is the author’s belief that this Acetate has entered the perfumery literature by accident rather than by merit of fragrance.
It is used in flavor compositions, e.g. in Berry complexes at the rate of about 3 to 15 ppm in the finished consumer product.
Produced by acetylation of guaiacol with acetic anhydride in an inert solvent.