A soft, dry woody note with a smoky-tea character and a subtle rosy floral facet inherited from guaiacwood. The formate ester adds a lightly green, slightly fruity lift over the resinous guaiac base.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 612.
Pale yellowish oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Peculiar green-woody, yet somewhat floral and tenacious odor with bark- or sap-like undertones.
It could probably act as a modifier for Guaiacwood oil or for the isolated Guaiol in modern aldehydic-woody fragrance types.
Produced from isolated Guaiol by formylation with formic acid and acetic anhydride.