A rich rosy-honey floral with a distinctive hyacinth-green facet and a soft waxy undertone. More tenacious and deeper than phenylethyl alcohol, it adds a natural, slightly narcotic honeyed sweetness to floral accords.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1111.
Colorless oily liquid.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Faint and mild, but very tenacious, delicately rosy-honey-like odor. Undertones are discretely fruity, the floral notes resemble Freesia.
The ester could find use as a modifier in Rose, as a base in Peony and Freesia, a component of Carnation, Frangipanni, Magnolia, etc.
Produced by direct esterification of Phenylethyl alcohol with Monochloroacetic acid, e.g. under azeotropic conditions, but not necessarily so.