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The aromatic alcohols are those compounds in which the hydroxyl group is not directly attached to the nucleus but is linked to a carbon atom situated in a side-chain.

The compound$-\mathrm{I}$ and compound$-\mathrm{II}$ are the phenols, these are not the aromatic alcohols as $-\mathrm{OH}$ group is directly attached to benzene ring.

The compounds $\mathrm{II} \text{and} \mathrm{III}$ are benzyl alcohols and these are aromatic alcohols as $-\mathrm{OH}$ group is attached to the carbon atom which itself attached to benzene ring.