Nitrocumene has a sweet, almond-like aromatic character with subtle cherry-pit and marzipan facets, reminiscent of nitrobenzene or benzaldehyde but softer and more diffuse. A faint musky-balsamic undertone emerges on dryout.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1010.
Colorless or pale yellowish liquid.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Pungent, but sweet herbaceous-green odor of moderate to poor tenacity.
This material has been used in perfume compositions, mainly in soap perfumes, for its power and relative stability, and for its low cost. It could be considered as obsolete, and it is generally avoided in perfumes of today.
Produced by Nitration of Cumene, obtained from coal tar.