A warm, spicy-floral aroma reminiscent of carnation and clove with a soft, slightly powdery sweetness. More rounded and less phenolic than eugenol itself, with a creamy woody undertone that emerges on drydown.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 864.
White or colorless crystal needles.
Practically insoluble in water, slightly soluble in alcohol, soluble in warm alcohol and in most oils.
Its odor is very weak, more medicinal than sweet, and its taste is also mostly medicinal, with no power of sweetness.
It could find use as a perfume fixative in Carnation and spice blends, but its cost would be prohibitive for such application.
Produced by ethylation of isomerized Betel-phenol (iso-Chavibetol).