A soft, warm coumarin-like note reminiscent of new-mown hay and tonka bean, with a subtle powdery sweetness. Used as a fixative and sweetener in fougère and oriental accords, it lends a hazy, slightly herbal warmth.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 970.
White crystals.
Insoluble in water, poorly soluble in cold alcohol, slightly soluble in warm alcohol, soluble in certain oils.
Faintly coumarinic odor.
Produced by Methylation of 7-Hydroxycoumarin, which is obtained from 1) 2,4-Dihydroxybenzaldehyde plus Acetic anhydride, or 2) Resorcinol (monomethylether) with Malonic acid and Sulfuric acid.