A soft, sweet floral-balsamic material with a rosy-geranium facet and a mild waxy undertone. Often used as a fixative and modifier to add warmth and diffusion to floral and oriental accords.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 858.
Colorless liquid
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils
Sweet, mildly green-rosy, somewhat metallic but overall pleasant odor of good tenacity
Used as an inexpensive perfume material for low-cost fragrances in functional products where exceptional stability is required
Produced by Friedel-Craft’s reaction on Styrene plus Benzene (with Aluminum chloride)