A pungent, sweetish aromatic solvent smell reminiscent of paint thinner or glue — sharp and chemical with a faint benzene-like sweetness. Not used as a fragrance note; it is a solvent/laboratory chemical rather than a perfumery material.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1389.
Colorless liquids.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils. Poorly soluble in diluted alcohol.
Pungent, gassy, kerosene-like odor, but not nearly as powerful as that of Toluene, not as nauseating as Benzene. Overall sweeter and milder than the two.
Xylene (mixture or isolated isomers) are used as solvents, occasionally for extraction of plant material intended for perfume raw materials. It is not used as such in perfumes or flavors.
The commercial mixture of isomers is isolated from coal tar from the gasoline fractions.