# 4-Ethyl Guaiacol

Source: https://dupehacking.com/ingredients/4-ethyl-guaiacol
CAS: 2785-89-9



4-Ethyl Guaiacol is the smell of oak barrels, smoked meat, and aged whisky. It occurs naturally in all of those things — formed when heat breaks down the lignin in wood — and it brings that same warm, smoky, cured quality to perfume compositions. The clove note is prominent but not sharp; it sits underneath a layer of soft vanilla warmth and dry woodsmoke. Use it in leather accords where you want genuine smokiness without the heaviness of birch tar. A trace alongside castoreum or Suederal and you have a smoked leather that smells like it has been sitting in a tannery, not a laboratory. In tobacco compositions it provides the cured, pipe-smoke facet that dried tobacco leaf alone cannot delive… — Fraterworks

## How the catalogue uses it
- Appears in 3 formulas.
- Dose: 1.00% to 5.01%, average 2.38%.
- Most at home in: Amber.
- Usually weighed alongside: Linalool, Ambroxan, Methyl Linoleate, Ethyl Linalool, 4-Ethyl Phenol, Orris Pallida Resinoid.


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