A soft, sweet balsamic-floral alcohol with a warm cinnamic-hyacinth character. Mild and rounded rather than sharp, with a gentle spicy undertone and a faint powdery drydown reminiscent of cinnamyl alcohol but slightly greener and more delicate.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 832.
Colorless, slightly viscous liquid.
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Sweet, balsamic-floral, tenacious odor of 'Oriental' type. It is less 'Cinnamon-like' and more 'Styrax-like' than Cinnamic alcohol, but it does not compete favourably with a pure Cinnamic alcohol with respect to natural floral notes.
This alcohol was introduced during a period of scarcity of Styrax and was particularly promoted as a basis for making artificial Styrax. It still finds some use as a modifier in balsamic and Oriental blends.
Produced by regulated hydrogenation of alpha-Methylcinnamic aldehyde.