Para-hydroxy phenylethyl alcohol (also known as tyrosol) has a mild, sweet floral character with honeyed and slightly phenolic facets. It carries a soft rose-like undertone with a warm balsamic quality, less sharp and more diffusive than regular phenylethyl alcohol.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 733.
White crystalline powder.
Slightly soluble in water, soluble in alcohol and most oils.
Faint, sweet fruity-floral odor, mainly rosy.
Sweet, but very weak taste, rather nondescript.
This material has only recently entered the flavor laboratories, and perhaps more because of its presence in natural Raspberry juice than on account of its individual odor and flavor.
1) from Tyrosine by biological synthesis. 2) from beta-para-Hydroxy phenylethylamine plus Nitrous acid.