Phenylglycol (phenyl ethylene glycol / 1-phenyl-1,2-ethanediol) has a very faint, mildly sweet floral-balsamic odor with a light hyacinth-like nuance. It is primarily used as a solvent and fixative rather than as an odor contributor, adding only a soft rounding effect to compositions.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Colorless oily liquid.
This ester has occasionally been used in Gardenia, Hyacinth, Narcisse and other powerful floral bases, usually at the rate of a few percent or less in the composition.
Produced by catalytic reduction of Benzoyl carbinyl propionate.