Resorcinol is a crystalline dihydroxybenzene with a faint, dry phenolic-medicinal odor reminiscent of mild carbolic or coal-tar notes. It is not a typical perfumery aroma chemical — used more as a UV stabilizer, dye intermediate or antiseptic — but on a blotter it reads as a subdued, slightly sweet-woody phenol with a dusty, almost tar-like undertone.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1227.
White plates, needles or prisms.
Soluble in water, soluble in alcohol, soluble in most perfume and flavor materials, also in Glycerin and Propylene glycol.
Practically odorless when pure.
Tart-sweet taste in proper dilution in water (moderately toxic).
Several derivatives of Resorcinol are used in perfumery and flavor compositions.
The title dihydric phenol is briefly mentioned in this work because it has found some use in products where perfumes or flavors are used.
Produced by alkali fusion of meta-Benzene disulfonic acid.