A pungent pyridine-family aromachemical with a sharp roasted-nutty, coffee-like character and a distinctly earthy, slightly animalic undertone. In dilution it reads as toasted grain and hazelnut with a hint of cocoa; neat it is aggressive and almost tar-like.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 775.
Colorless liquid.
20% soluble in water, soluble in alcohol and most oils.
Powerful and diffusive minty-tarry odor of poor tenacity (when the material is pure, but technical grades leave a very tenacious naphthalenic dryout note).
This material has been suggested for use in perfume compositions to introduce new types of leather-like notes, give lift and power or support individual notes in a fragrance.
It is not used in flavors, as far as the author is aware.
1) from coal tar distillates. 2) from bone tar distillates. (Bone tar oil).