Extremely powerful sulfurous thiol with a pungent, almost skunky character at full strength. On dilution it opens into tropical fruit facets — grapefruit zest, cassis bud, and a green catty nuance reminiscent of blackcurrant leaf. Signature diffusive top-note booster used in trace amounts.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 692.
Colorless liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Extremely powerful and diffusive odor. At concentrations near 0.1% in Diethyl phthalate, one can barely endure the evaluation and detect a striking similarity to the odor of 'firecrackers', or recently extinguished matches, etc. In other words, a 'burnt, sulfuraceous odor'.
Mainly of academic interest, this material has occasionally found use in that special branch of perfumery which could be classified as 'industrial odors'.
1) from n-Hexylbromide plus Potassium hydrosulfide in alcohol. 2) from Hexanol vapors plus Hydrogen sulfide gas over Thoria catalyst at 400° C.