2-BENZYLHEPTANOL

📋 Quick facts

Description: 2-BENZYLHEPTANOL — FRAGRANCE, PERFUMING.

All Functions: FRAGRANCE, PERFUMING

Quick Facts:

• Category: fragrance

Proven Benefits At A Glance:

• 2-Benzylheptanol is a fragrance ingredient belonging to the Aryl Alkyl Alcohols chemical family
• It is classified as a primary alcohol, meaning it has a specific chemical structure with an alcohol group attached to a benzene ring
• Safety assessments for this ingredient exist in peer-reviewed toxicology and dermatology literature
• It is used in fragrance applications

⚗️ Chemical Overview

structure in first source

Source(s): Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), via PubChem

📊 Comedogenicity

🛡️ Safety rating

Safety tier is a starting heuristic from regulatory status and comedogenic rating, not a dermatological verdict — see our Terms for the full disclaimer. Research confidence reflects how many real cited studies back this ingredient, not the strength of their findings.

🌍 Regulatory Status

💧 Skin Type Compatibility

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📚 Research & Evidence

🔬 The Science

2-Benzylheptanol is a fragrance ingredient that belongs to a chemical family called Aryl Alkyl Alcohols (AAAs). To understand what this means: an ‘aryl’ group is a benzene ring (the basic building block in many organic molecules), and ‘alkyl’ refers to a hydrocarbon chain. In 2-benzylheptanol’s case, these components are bonded together with an alcohol group—the -OH functional group that gives alcohols their name (Food Chem Toxicol, 2012). The Aryl Alkyl Alcohols are a structurally diverse family of fragrance ingredients that can be primary, secondary, or tertiary alcohols. 2-Benzylheptanol specifically is a primary alcohol, which describes where the alcohol group sits on its carbon backbone (Food Chem Toxicol, 2012).

Toxicology and dermatology research on this ingredient has been conducted and published in peer-reviewed journals, though the sources provided here do not detail specific safety findings or benefits—they primarily confirm that safety review literature exists and point to broader assessments of related alcohol fragrance ingredients for complete safety context (Food Chem Toxicol, 2012).

📄 Related Research

Matched by search — not necessarily verified support for every statement above.

• Scognamiglio J et al. (2012). Fragrance material review on 2-benzylheptanol. Food Chem Toxicol.
• Api AM et al. (2018). RIFM fragrance ingredient safety assessment 2-Benzylheptanol, CAS Registry Number 92368-90-6. Food Chem Toxicol.

🧴 Products Containing 2-BENZYLHEPTANOL

• Barnängen, Schwarzkopf & Henkel Barnängen Active Pearls Aqua spirit
• Cinthol,Godrej Foam Body Wash