Phytol is a very soft, subtle diterpene alcohol with a faint green-floral, slightly balsamic and waxy character reminiscent of dried hay or tea leaves. It has almost no top impact and functions more as a quiet fixative and modifier than a featured note, adding a natural, leafy softness to floral and green accords.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1141.
Practically colorless, viscous liquid.
Insoluble in water, miscible with alcohol and oils.
To most observers, this material is odorless and tasteless. On a closer study, one may detect very delicate, floral-balsamic notes, resembling those of Nerolidol and Farnesol.
There is good reason to try it in a composition. It has been tried in artificial flower absolutes with success.
1) by isolation from the Chlorophyll-extract (e.g. from Alfalfa grass) by decomposition. 2) from Farnesol via Hexahydrofarnesylbromide to 2,6,10-Trimethylpentadecanone-4 and to Phytol by Ethinylation and selective hydrogenation.