Synthetics
Eugenol smells like a pungent, warm, spicy clove with a dry, almost sharp edge.
Mosciano, Gerard P&F 26, No. 3, 80, (2001): Sweet, spicy, clove like, woody, with phenolic savory ham and bacon notes and cinnamon and allspice nuances
Luebke, William tgsc, (1984): Sweet spicy clove woody
PerfumersWorld: Pungent spicy clove warm spicy clove powerful warm-spicy rather dry and almost sharp
Blends with - +bergamot +geranium +ylang +petitgrain +jasmin gums
Pell Wall Perfumes: Sweet, spicy-clove, woody, dry, with phenolic, cinnamon and allspice nuances
Arctander describes it as “powerful, warm-spicy, rather dry and almost sharp odor, drier and harder than that of clove bud oil, less peppery-woody than that of clove leaf oil… extensively used in perfume compositions, conventionally in carnation, for which purpose the author would recommend ISO-eugenol in spite of the almost unanimous use of eugenol in published formulations. for incense, oriental fragrances, rose bases, certain types of fougère, blue-grass’ type fragrances, etc. and in all variations of modern spice types, eugenol is commonly used in large amounts.”