We present the first high resolution vacuum ultraviolet photoabsorption study of amorphous benzene with com parisons to annealed crystalline benzene and the gas phase. Vapour deposited benzene layers w ere grow n at 25 K and annealed to 90 K under conditions pertinent to interstellaricy dust grains and icy planetary bodies in our solar system. Three single t-single t electronic transitions in solid benzene correspond to the B-1(2u), B-1(1u) and E-1(1u) states, redshifted by 0.05, 0.25 and 0.51 eV respectively with respect to the gas phase. The symmetry forbidden B-1(2u)
