A warm, spicy-herbal aromatic with a phenolic character reminiscent of thyme but smoother and less pungent than thymol itself. The methyl ether softens the harsh medicinal edge, leaving a dry, slightly sweet herbaceous note with hints of caraway and anise.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1311.
Colorless oily liquid.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Warm-spicy-rooty, herbaceous odor with practically no trace of medicinal or phenolic notes, but rather a dry-leafy character.
It may serve as a modifier in mildly spicy fragrances, as a companion to Methyleugenol for Tea-like notes, in Chypre or Fougére variations, in detergent fragrances, etc.
Produced from Thymol in weak aqueous alkali with Dimethylsulfate.