A sweet, floral-balsamic aroma chemical reminiscent of ylang-ylang and cananga, with a slight phenolic-anisic facet. Warm and slightly powdery, it blends smoothly into white-floral and oriental accords.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 966.
Crystalline mass or colorless oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Very tenacious, powerful, sweet anisic-floral odor with some resemblance to notes in Ylang-Ylang.
This material has found considerable use in perfume compositions, partly because of its ready availability, partly because of its low cost and good stability.
1) from para-Toluidine via the Nitrile to the acid and finally to the Methylester. 2) from para-Xylene by oxidation to para-Toluic acid, which is subsequently esterified with Methanol.