A warm, sweet-spicy floral reminiscent of carnation and clove with a soft balsamic undertone. Rounder, less pungent and more tenacious than eugenol or isoeugenol itself, with a creamy powdery-woody drydown.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 687.
Viscous yellowish liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils, almost insoluble in propylene glycol.
Very tenacious, balsamic-vanilla-like odor of peculiar green sweetness, giving an overall impression of cocoa or chocolate rather than of vanilla.
Suggested for use in perfume compositions, mainly as a fixative/modifier in heavy florals, Oriental fragrance types, etc.
Produced from eugenol and hexyl bromide in alcoholic alkaline solution, followed by isomerization with strong potassium hydroxide in alcohol.