A dark, balsamic base note with a smoky-phenolic guaiac facet wrapped in the soft sweetness of benzoate esters. Reads as smoked wood and clove-like resin drying down to a warm, vanillic-balsamic sweetness with hints of leather and tobacco.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 609.
Colorless crystalline powder.
Almost insoluble in water. Poorly soluble in cold alcohol, soluble in hot alcohol, miscible with oils.
Virtually odorless when pure and freshly prepared.
Very faint taste, rather nondescript, sweet-balsamic, woody.
Produced from Guaiacol in aqueous alkaline solution with Benzoyl chloride.