A soft rose-hyacinth floral with a green, slightly waxy character. Reminiscent of phenylethyl alcohol but rounder, drier and more nuanced, with a fresh leafy top and a gentle petal-like body. Useful as a natural-feeling floral modifier in rose, muguet and hyacinth accords.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1103.
Colorless liquid, solidifying in the cold.
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Warm-balsamic, floral and slightly earthy-green-spicy odor of moderate tenacity.
This carbinol finds a little use in perfumery, although it is far from being a common ingredient. For carnation, Ylang-Ylang, Wallflower, etc. it may be used as a modifier or supporting note, a blender to the more spicy materials, a liaison between the floral and the spicy notes.
1) by hydrogenation of Phenylethyl ethyl ketone. 2) from Phenyl propionic aldehyde and Ethyl magnesium bromide in a Grignard type reaction.