Hydrocinnamic alcohol exists in storax and fern balsam, also present in Vaccinium species fruits, guava fruit and peel, blackberry, other fruits, rum, white wine, shitake mushroom, matsutake mushroom and peated malt. It is a flavoring ingredient.

4-(4-Amino-3-fluorophenoxy)-N-methylpicolinamide is an aromatic enigma that is is a metabolite of the antitumor drug rafenil.

ACH-000143 have been identified as a novel agonist of the melatonin receptors MT1 and MT2.