A soft, dry woody note with a subtle rosy-balsamic facet and faint smoky character. Reminiscent of guaiacwood but lighter and more crystalline, with an earthy undertone that lingers quietly.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 611.
Colorless prismatic crystals.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol, miscible with perfume oils.
Mild, rather sweet and very tenacious balsamic-woody odor with an almost floral undertone and a pepperiness which seem to be apparent only in impure material.
Guaiol as such is not often used in perfumery. It could provide a suitable basis for many woody and floral-woody complexes, since it blends excellently with floral odors as well as naturally with all types of woody odors. It could form an excellent basis for Carnation and a pleasant background in a Chypre or modern woody-aldehydic fragrance.
Produced by extraction from Guaiacwood oil with a volatile solvent, usually Acetone, Ethanol or Ethylether.