A soft, fresh floral aromachemical with a distinctly green, hyacinth-like character and a hint of rose. Mildly rosy-earthy with a clean, natural feel — often used to add naturalness and lift to floral bouquets.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 865.
Colorless oily liquid.
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Its odor is somewhat similar to that of DMBC, however, more dry, slightly woody-camphoraceous, overall not so floral. It has a pleasant greenness and blends well with Oakmoss, Amylsalicylate, herbaceous oils, Terpineol, Heliotropine, Coumarin, etc., but does not point in any specific floral direction.
This carbinol, not nearly as common or readily available as its isomer, Dimethyl-benzylcarbinol, finds a little use in perfume compositions.
Produced by Grignard type synthesis from Phenylmagnesium bromide plus Methyl ethyl ketone.