3,4-Dimethoxytoluene — a sweet, warm phenolic-floral note reminiscent of ylang-ylang and carnation with a soft powdery, faintly vanillic undertone. Slightly spicy and balsamic in dilution, with a rounded, waxy character that bridges floral and oriental accords.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 698.
Colorless crystalline mass, melting at 21°C to an almost colorless oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Powerful, sweet, but tarry-medicinal odor of considerable diffusion and moderate tenacity. Undertones — under the tarry notes - are barely perceptible as sweet-floral and actually pleasant, reminiscent of terminal notes from Ylang Ylang oil.
Sweet, penetratingly medicinal taste, unless diluted below 5 ppm. Then almost vanilla-like, balsamic-sweet, nut-like taste.
This ether is used in perfumery for smokey and medicinal effects as a variant from the conventional 'medicinal' materials. It performs well with Ylang and Cananga oils, Labdanum and many Benzoates, iso-Eugenol, etc.
Although not recognized for flavor use in the U.S.A., this ether could possibly find use in Walnut and Nut flavor compositions. It has a pleasant effect with Oakmoss for such purposes.
1) by Methylation of Creosol with Dimethylsulfate in aqueous alkaline solution. 2) by Dimethylation of Homocatechol, which can be obtained from para-Cresol by electrolytic oxidation.