An intense fruity ester with a fatty-waxy green character reminiscent of pear skin, unripe melon, and a hint of tropical fruit. Sharp and diffusive on first sniff, softening into a slightly oily green-fruit facet.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 48.
Colorless oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol, miscible with essential oils and flavor chemicals.
Fatty and slightly nutty, green-fruity, somewhat pineapple-like odor.
Fatty-oily, Pineapple-fruity taste. Quite powerful.
This ester could find use in flavor compositions, although it is less versatile than the saturated ester (Allyl nonanoate). In traces in Pineapple imitation as a modifier, and to introduce fruity-oily notes in Rum and Arak imitation flavors.
Produced by direct esterification of Allyl alcohol with Nonenoic acid, under azeotropic conditions.