Stearyl alcohol — a long-chain fatty alcohol with only a very faint, waxy-soapy odor. In perfumery it's used primarily as a fixative or bodying agent rather than for its scent, contributing a soft creamy-waxy background.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1040.
Leafy colorless crystals or white crystalline mass.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Virtually odorless when pure, but commercial grades normally have a faint, bland-oily odor.
The title alcohol is used in cosmetic preparations at levels many times higher than the normal perfume level, and it is therefore interesting for the perfumer to know that this alcohol may act as a fixative and also as an odor-depressant upon the perfume or part of it.
Produced from Stearic acid, which may be obtained by saponification of Tallow, or hydrogenation of Cottonseed oil, from Castor oil or from other natural oils.