Synthetics
Anisyl alcohol smells like a sweet, powdery floral with hints of hawthorn, lilac, rose, and a touch of fruity vanilla, all with a faint, delicate balsa-like background.
Mosciano, Gerard P&F 24, No. 2, 49, (1999): Sweet, powdery creamy, balsamic, coumarin and slightly lactonic, cherry and licorice nuance
Luebke, William tgsc, (1983): Sweet powdery hawthorn lilac rose floral hyacinth
Givaudan: Floral, anisic, herbaceous, powdery
Anisyl alcohol adds volume and gives a natural aspect to floral compositions such as mimosa, lilac, cassia, apple-blossom, jasmine and heliotrope as well as to clover and fougère perfumes. it has an excellent blending effect and can give a heliotropic character without the problem of colouration.
Symrise: Mild, sweet-floral, like hawthorn
Moellhausen: Sweet, fruity
PerfumersWorld: Hawthorn powdery lilac sweet rose floral sweet aroma fruity lilac oily mild-floral very sweet
Blends-well-with - +terpineol +anethole +eugenyl methyl ether makes a good lilac +heliotropin +vanillin anisaldehyde
Pell Wall Perfumes: , floral-hawthorn and lilac, powdery, vanilla, balsamic
Arctander says this about it: “mild-floral, very sweet odor, reminiscent of lilac and vanilla with a faint, delicate, balsamic background. very useful in lilac, appleblossom, sweet pea, gardenia, jasmin, etc. gives pleasant notes with nitromusks and with certain types of non-nitromusks. good tenacity.”