A soft, rosy-floral alcohol with a fresh green-lily character and a mild waxy undertone. Reminiscent of phenylethyl alcohol but rounder, less sharp, with a subtle muguet/lily-of-the-valley nuance. Clean and slightly powdery in the drydown.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1089.
Colorless liquid.
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Light and sweet-herbaceous odor with discretely citrusy-lemony notes, overall resembling Verbena, although not nearly as lemony.
This alcohol has been recommended for use in perfume compositions, but it has rarely been offered under its proper chemical name.
1) from Benzaldehyde by condensation with Butyraldehyde, followed by complete hydrogenation and reduction of the unsaturated aldehyde. 2) from Phenyl magnesium chloride and Ethylene oxide. 3) by reduction of Phenylpentenoic acid, ethylester.