A sweet, balsamic-floral material with a warm cinnamic character and a soft hyacinth-like nuance. Develops a powdery, slightly honeyed floral tone that persists as a diffuse balsamic backdrop.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 936.
White crystalline mass.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol (poorly in cold, better in hot alcohol), soluble in most perfume oils.
Practically odorless when pure and freshly prepared. When incorporated in a composition, it may lend balsamic-floral effects to the fragrance, and supply good fixation.
This material finds very limited use in perfumery. It has been suggested as a fixative for Gardenia, and it does have a very attractive effect upon certain types of Gardenia base, particularly those which are not overcharged with Benzylacetate and Methylphenylcarbinyl acetate.
Produced by azeotropic type esterification of Methyl phenyl carbinol with Cinnamic acid.