A soft floral-green material with a rosy, phenylethyl-alcohol-like character wrapped in a light ethereal freshness. The propyl ether gives it a cleaner, greener, more airy feel than phenylethyl alcohol itself, with subtle honeyed undertones.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1201.
Colorless mobile liquid
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils
Powerful, earthy-floral, deep and warm odor of poor tenacity, but considerable diffusive power
This ether has found a little use in perfume compositions as a modifier for its lower homologues, both of which are rather pungent and at times difficult to control in a perfume creation.
1) from Phenylethyl magnesium chloride plus Bromodiethylether. 2) from Phenylpropionic aldehyde dimethyl-acetal by reduction in presence of a Nickel catalyst at 180° C.