A soft, sweet floral-balsamic material with a honeyed rosy character and a subtle hyacinth-green facet. Long-lasting and diffusive in a quiet way, it acts as a fixative and rounding agent in floral bases, adding a warm, slightly waxy sweetness reminiscent of styrax and mimosa.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1102.
Colorless oily liquid.
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Extremely tenacious, warm and mild-rosy, earthy-honey-like odor.
This material is used mainly for rose variations, as a modifier in Oriental-sweet types, Origan-types, etc. or in new versions of Chypre. It is also very pleasant as a background in Reseda-notes.
Produced by esterification of Phenylethylene glycol with Phenylacetic acid in presence of a catalyst, e.g. Aluminum phosphide.