Diethyl maleate has a mild, sweet-fruity ester odor with a slightly winey, balsamic character. It's fairly quiet on its own and is more commonly used as a solvent or intermediate than as a primary perfumery note.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 373.
Colorless liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Its weak and uncharacteristic flavor makes it inferior to the Malonate and Malate.
Presumably not used in perfume compositions.
Finds some use in flavor compositions, mainly those for soft drinks and hard candy.
Produced by direct esterification of Maleic acid with Ethyl alcohol.