Para-hydroxyacetophenone (piceol) is a mild, sweet-balsamic phenolic material with hay-like, coumarinic and faintly almond nuances. Soft and rounded rather than sharp, it lends a warm, powdery tobacco-hay depth and works as a subtle fixative in balsamic and gourmand accords.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 715.
Colorless needles melting at 109°C.
Slightly soluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Heavy-floral, somewhat herbaceous or woody-haylike odor of considerable tenacity.
This ketone has been suggested for use in perfume compositions as a modifier for the more conventional derivatives of Acetophenone, mainly in heavy-floral or woody-floral fragrances where power and low cost are requested.
1) from Phenylacetate by heating with Aluminum chloride. 2) from Phenol, Acetylchloride and Aluminum chloride by Friedel-Craft reaction.