Myristic alcohol (1-tetradecanol) is a soft, waxy fatty alcohol with a faint clean, slightly soapy odor. Very mild in isolation — more of a textural, waxy skin-like impression than a distinct fragrance note, with subtle aldehydic/coconut-adjacent facets on dry-down.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 989.
Colorless or opaque waxy mass or leafy crystals.
Soluble in alcohol and oils, poorly soluble in diluted alcohol, insoluble in water, propylene glycol, glycerin.
Very faint, coconut-oily, mildly waxy odor of considerable tenacity. A highly purified product is almost odorless.
This alcohol is rarely used in perfumes for olfactory purposes, but it finds extensive use in cosmetic preparations as an emollient.
Produced from the head oil of the sperm whale via the acid and the ester.