In the title compound, 6-benz-yloxy-2H-1-benzopyran-2-one, C(16)H(12)O(3), the coumarin unit and benzyl plane in the mol-ecule are perpendicular to each other [86.92 (7)°]. The crystal packing is stabilized by π-π stacking inter-actions, with an inter-planar separation between inversion-related coumarin units of 3.618 (3) Å. The crystal structure shows inter-molecular C-H⋯O hydrogen bonding between neighboring mol-ecules.