A soft, mildly rosy-floral alcohol with a green, slightly waxy character. Reminiscent of muguet and rose petals with a fresh, clean facet, less sharp than phenylethyl alcohol and with more body.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1124.
Colorless, slightly viscous liquid.
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Refreshingly citrusy-green, delicately rosy odor of good tenacity.
The alcohol is rarely offered under its proper name, but it is employed in a number of bases and specialties, some of which are several decades old.
1) from Phenylbutyl magnesiumbromide plus Ethylene oxide. 2) by reduction of Phenylcaproic acid, Ethyl-ester, 3) from Phenylhexyl chloride by treatment with Potassium acetate and Acetic acid, followed by saponification of the ester.