A warm, sweet anisic-balsamic aroma with soft floral and lightly spicy nuances, reminiscent of methoxyacetophenone but rounder and creamier. Develops a powdery, almost hawthorn-like facet on drydown with a hint of coumarinic warmth.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 804.
Colorless oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Sweet, somewhat pungent, buttery-creamy odor with floral notes upon proper dilution.
This ketone, not a very common perfume chemical, has found a little use as a modifier for the Acetophenone derivatives in floral-woody and floral-herbaceous fragrance types. It gives interesting variations of Mimosa-like effect with Labdanum derivatives or with iso-Butyl-cinnamate or similar Labdanum materials.
Produced by rearrangement of Phenylpropionate with Aluminum chloride in Carbon disulfide solution, followed by Methylation with Dimethyl sulfate in weak aqueous alkaline solution.