Tricresyl phosphate is essentially odorless — an industrial plasticizer and flame retardant, not a fragrance material. In perfumery contexts it has no meaningful olfactory contribution; at most a very faint waxy or oily impression at high concentration.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1328.
Almost colorless, slightly viscous liquid.
Very slightly soluble in water, miscible with alcohol and oils, including mineral oil and vegetable oils.
The commercial material is usually manufactured from Cresol (mainly from para-Cresol with Phosphorus pentachloride or Phosphoryl chloride).