Styrene has a sweet, penetrating, almost balsamic-floral odor with a distinctly solventy, plasticky edge reminiscent of polystyrene foam. It's sharp and slightly rubbery on first sniff, with faint hyacinth-like floral facets underneath.AI · claude-opus-4-7
Other ingredients whose composition declares this material as a constituent. The percentage shown is the supplier-declared concentration in that parent.
| Ingredient | % | Range |
|---|---|---|
| Oud Firbest | — | 0.1–0.5% |
Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1267.
Colorless mobile liquid.
Poorly soluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Extremely diffusive, sweet-gassy, in dilution balsamic and almost floral odor of poor tenacity. Overall rather chemical odor, often described as prototype of 'hydrocarbon' odor.
This hydrocarbon is sometimes used in minute traces in perfume compositions to enhance floral topnotes, mainly in sweet and floral fragrances for household products, detergents, etc., where radiance and diffusion of odor is often preferred over tenacity.
1) from Ethylbenzene by dehydrogenation. 2) from Ethylbenzene by chlorination, followed by dechlorination.