A warm, sweet-spicy balsamic material reminiscent of clove and carnation with a soft floral-powdery facet. Rounder and less pungent than eugenol itself, with a creamy, slightly vanillic undertone that persists on the drydown.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1118.
White crystals.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol (less than 10%), better in hot alcohol and oils.
Very mild, warm-balsamic and sweet odor of excellent tenacity.
Occasionally used in perfume compositions for its fixative effect in Carnation, Wallflower, Rose, Lilac and various other floral and floral-balsamic fragrance types.
Produced from Eugenol plus Potassium hydroxide and Sodium benzene sulfonate, followed by isomerization of the resulting phenyl-eugenol with alcoholic Potassium hydroxide.