A soft, waxy floral alcohol with a rosy-muguet character and a mild green, slightly fatty undertone. Feels creamy and clean rather than sharp, with a subtle oily nuance typical of long-chain phenyl alkanols.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1124.
Colorless oily liquid.
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Mild, oily-rosy and delicately green, tenacious odor.
The title alcohol has been suggested for use in perfume compositions as a modifier, mainly in Rose compositions, where it should introduce freshness and discretely green notes. With that odor picture, the title material is also suitable for Muguet, Lily and other delicate, sweet-green florals.
Produced from beta-Methyl-beta-phenylpropionic aldehyde by condensation with Acetone, followed by hydrogenation and reduction to the secondary-alcohol.