A warm, sweet-spicy aroma reminiscent of clove and carnation, softer and more floral than eugenol itself. Develops a rounded, slightly powdery balsamic character with a subtle woody undertone.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 868.
Colorless oily liquid, solidifying in the cold.
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Sweet and warm, mild floral-tealike, very slightly spicy and very tenacious odor.
This phenolether is used in perfume compositions as part of Carnation bases, as a fixative in spicy fragrances, as a mildly spicy note in Rose, Ylang and other florals. It is commonly used in variations of 'l’Origan' type fragrances, Oriental perfumes, etc.
This material is also used on a limited scale in flavor compositions, mainly for spice blends, Vanilla imitations, Chocolate bases, etc. The concentration used is normally about 5 to 100 ppm, as usual highest in chewing gum or certain other types of candy.
1) by isomerization of Methyleugenol with alcoholic Potassium hydroxide. 2) by Methylation of iso-Eugenol with Dimethylsulfate in weak aqueous alkaline solution.