A pungent, sharp alcoholic smell reminiscent of rubbing alcohol with a fusel, slightly fermented edge. Flashes off quickly leaving little residual character. Not used for its odor in perfumery — essentially a solvent/aroma-chemical intermediate.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1165.
Colorless mobile liquid.
Miscible with water, glycerin, alcohol and oils.
The commercial product has an alcoholic-nauseating, sweet odor of very poor tenacity.
It is used occasionally in flavor compositions, mainly in fruit flavors to introduce part of a 'ripe' or 'fermented' note or part of a winey flavor.
Although occasionally used as a solvent in perfumery work, the title alcohol finds very little use as such in perfumes.
The concentration is normally as low as 0.5 to 1 ppm in the finished product, actually mere traces of questionable flavor value.
The title material appears in the more advanced steps of treating carbon monoxide with hydrogen. It is also manufactured in the line of petrochemical syntheses.