Propyl benzene has a sharp, aromatic hydrocarbon odor reminiscent of gasoline and styrene, with a faintly sweet, almond-adjacent nuance. It smells more like a solvent than a finished perfumery material and is rarely used in fine fragrance.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1167.
Colorless mobile liquid.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
This hydrocarbon is rarely, if ever, used as such in perfumes or flavors. It has occasionally found use as a solvent for extraction of natural materials.
1) from Benzyl magnesium chloride and Diethyl sulfate. 2) by reduction of Phenyl ethyl ketone or Benzyl methyl ketone.