A soft, natural-smelling floral aroma chemical with a green, rosy, lily-of-the-valley character. Reminiscent of Phenoxanol/Phenirat — clean petal-like freshness with a mild waxy-oily nuance, less sharp than phenylethyl alcohol and more diffusive than rosy alcohols.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 694.
Colorless, slightly viscous liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Musty-rosy, mainly woody, and rather dry odor of moderate tenacity.
This alcohol has been suggested for use in perfume compositions. It is rarely, if ever, offered under its proper chemical name. Its peculiar, not immediately attractive odor requires quite some assistance from other odorants in order to produce pleasant effects. It will in most cases be limited to woody and harsh-rosy fragrances, e.g. soap perfumes, where the stability of this carbinol can be utilized with some advantage.
1) by Grignard type reaction on Phenylacetaldehyde with Hexyl Magnesium bromide. 2) by hydrogenation of Hexyl phenylethyl ketone.