A warm, herbal-spicy aroma reminiscent of thyme and caraway, with a medicinal, slightly camphoraceous facet. Softer and less pungent than thymol itself, with a dry aromatic character that carries a subtle woody-anisic nuance.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1309.
Colorless or pale straw-colored, oily liquid.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and most oils.
Heavy-sweet, warm-spicy, almost nut-like earthy odor of considerable tenacity.
The ether has been suggested for use in perfume compositions as a fixative with considerable sweetening effect, or as a modifier for Coumarin in novel Fougére types, Chypres, etc.
The subject ether is, in fact, chief component of the essential oil of 'Dog Fennel' growing wild in the Southeastern United States, but not commercially exploited.
Produced by Methylation of Thymohydroquinone in aqueous alkaline solution with Dimethylsulfate.