Para-Cresyl Phenyl Acetate
Note Profile
About
Para-Cresyl Phenyl Acetate is a single synthetic molecule, the phenylacetic acid ester of p-cresol (CAS 101-94-0). It smells of heady white flowers over a warm animalic, honeyed base, with a leathery-balsamic edge and a faint urinous sharpness. It is the most floral and the least horsey of the p-cresol esters.
Scent Profile
Para-Cresyl Phenyl Acetate smells of heady white flowers, warm and animalic rather than clean. A honeyed sweetness runs through it, rich and almost edible. Underneath sits a floral note close to narcissus, jasmine and violet, and a warm, leathery-balsamic edge with a faint urinous sharpness. A thick, powdery quality rounds it off. Of the related molecules in its family, this is the most floral and the least horse-like.
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Materials That Can Make This Note
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P-tolyl phenylacetate hyacinth · lily · animal
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Origin
Synthetic. It is made by esterifying p-cresol with phenylacetic acid. It belongs to a small family of p-cresyl esters used for animalic-floral effects; p-cresyl acetate is the sharper, more horse-like member of that family. It is sold by specialist suppliers rather than published on a fragrance house sheet.
Usage in Perfumery
Used in trace to give volume and body. ScenTree says it 'allows to give more facets to floral notes and to give volume to animalic notes'. Fraterworks calls it 'virtually indispensable when constructing a narcissus accord' and uses it for realistic honey and for animalic depth in leather, oriental and chypre bases. Two Fragrantica placements are recorded and no Parfumo placements.
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