Phenylethyl glycol monoacetate (styryl glycol acetate) is a mild, sweet floral-balsamic material with a soft hyacinth-like green facet. Quiet and rounded rather than sharp, it functions more as a modifier and light fixative than a headline note.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1121.
Colorless, slightly viscous liquid.
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Fruity-green, somewhat pungent, but not harsh, odor of moderate to poor tenacity.
This ester has been used for Narcisse and Hyacinth fragrance compositions and as a modifier in various other powerful floral types.
Produced by catalytic hydrogenation of Benzoyl carbinyl acetate.