A soft floral-green alcohol reminiscent of hyacinth and lily-of-the-valley, with a mild sweetness and a subtle warm-aromatic undertone from its phenylpropyl backbone. Less sharp than phenylethyl alcohol, rounder and slightly more herbal-green.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 706.
Colorless liquid.
Slightly soluble in water, soluble in alcohol and propylene glycol, miscible with oils.
Sweet-floral, but rather heavy odor of Lilac-Hyacinth type.
Its taste is rather heavy-sweet, woody-floral, but pleasant in concentrations below 20 ppm.
It blends well with the rose alcohols, with Eugenols and woody odors, with Oakmoss products and Vetiver, etc. With suitable blending in Cinnamic alcohol and derivatives, it may form background for Hyacinth and other floral bases.
This alcohol is occasionally used in flavor compositions, usually as a trace component in Berry, Melon, Honey and Nut compositions, or in rare floral flavor types.
Produced from (many methods), e. g.: by hydration of alpha-Methyl styrene.