"Often still known by its archaic name Benzol"

In German, that's the regular name, haha.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/benzin has also become the word for gasoline in many languages.

That would actually imply that an OH group replaced one of the hydrogens, forming an alcohol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_(chemistry)

So Benzol is not benzyl alcohol.

Edit: this is not what I was expecting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzyl_alcohol

That would make it phenol.

benzyl and phenyl are different