Hydrogenated cardanol — a heavy, oily phenolic material with a soft woody-waxy character and faint nutty, cashew-shell undertone. Low volatility with a warm balsamic drydown; used more as a fixative/emollient carrier than a bright top-line odorant.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 708.
Colorless or very pale straw-colored viscous liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol, miscible with oils.
Very faint, dry-woody, slightly camphoraceous odor of considerable tenacity.
This meta-substituted Cyclohexanol has been suggested for use in perfume compositions as a fixative with very limited odor contribution.
Produced by hydrogenation of Cardanol, isolated from Cashew-shells.