A warm, sweet-spicy anisic aromachemical with a licorice-like facet and a soft herbal-terpenic backdrop reminiscent of tarragon or fennel. Diffusive at first with a slightly medicinal edge, settling into a rounded, cozy anethole-adjacent sweetness.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 946.
Colorless liquid
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol, miscible with oils
Pungent-dry, medicinal, but refreshing odor of moderate tenacity
This Phenolether has been suggested for use in perfume compositions, e.g. in modern soaps
The material can be isolated from the essential oil of Chamaecyparis obtusa, known as Hinoki leaf oil, produced in Taiwan. The Phenolether can also be prepared synthetically from Carvacrol by Methylation in weak aqueous alkali, followed by dehydrogenation.