A soft, honeyed and slightly waxy floral note with a mild phenolic-balsamic undertone. In dilution it lends a rounded, beeswax-like sweetness reminiscent of mimosa and hyacinth, adding warmth and body to floral accords.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1073.
Colorless needlelike crystals.
Soluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Very faint, acetic-sweet odor of considerable tenacity. The odor is not nearly as cloying as that of Phenylacetic acid, and not as honey-like, but it is more sour.
In concentrations below 10 ppm the taste is sweet-honey-like, in higher concentrations slightly sour-fruity. Impure material will show up very clearly on taste, displaying a phenolic off-flavor.
The author has no report of its use in perfumery, but several of its esters are used in fragrance compositions, mainly for honey effects, while esters of Phenoxyethanol are used in perfumery for floral effects.
In imitation honey, and in various fruit complexes, the acid is used in concentrations equal to 0.3 to 2 ppm in the functional product.
Produced from phenol in aqueous alkali with monochloroacetic acid.