A soft floral-green aromachemical with a lily-of-the-valley and hyacinth character. Slightly waxy and fresh, with a clean petal-like nuance that supports muguet and light white-floral accords.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1391.
Colorless oily liquid.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Mild, sweet-floral, soft-balsamic odor, fresher than Phenylpropylalcohol (Hydrocinnamic alcohol), but less rosy and less balsamic.
The title material has been suggested for use in perfume compositions in general as a mild floralizer or modifier in floral or woody-floral, evt. Oriental-floral compositions.
Produced from meta-Methylbenzaldehyde via Perkin’s reaction to meta-Methylcinnamic acid. The ethylester of this acid is transformed in a Bouveault-Blanc reduction to the title alcohol.