2,6-Lutidine has a sharp, pungent pyridine-like odor — nutty and roasted with cocoa and coffee facets, and a distinctly animalic, almost fecal undertone in concentration. On dilution it reads as toasted, earthy and slightly meaty, useful for adding realism to coffee, cocoa and roasted-nut accords.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 775.
Almost colorless or pale yellowish mobile liquid.
Miscible with water, soluble in alcohol, poorly soluble in oils.
Pungent, yet light and nauseating-ethereal-herbaceous odor with sweet, breadlike undertones. Its topnote has been compared to the odor of human breath after Vitamin B-12 injection.
Has been suggested for use in perfume compositions to introduce sweet, meat-like, smoky notes, e.g. in artificial Oakmoss, etc.
Produced by isolation from coal tar, purified over the Mercury salt, or synthetically from Ethyl acetoacetate plus Formaldehyde plus Ammonia.