Intensely fruity ester with the unmistakable smell of ripe banana and pear drops. Sharp and sweet on first sniff with a solvent-like edge, quickly fading to a lighter fruity-candy nuance.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 60.
Iso-Amyl acetate is a colorless mobile liquid.
Slightly soluble (0.25%) in water, miscible with alcohol, essential oils and flavor materials.
Pronounced fruity-fresh odor, sweet but slightly nauseating. In dilution reminiscent of Pear, Banana, Apple. Very volatile.
Sweet-fruity, Pearlike, Bergamot-pear-like taste, also reminiscent of overripe Banana, Apple, etc.
Occasionally used — in mere traces — in perfumery for 'lift' to heavy-oriental fragrances, florals, etc. Concentration about 0.1 to 0.2% in the perfume oil.
Used extensively in flavor compositions for imitation Pear, Raspberry, Strawberry, Banana, Caramel, Cola, Coconut, Apple, Cherry, Creamsoda, Grape, Butter, Peach, Pineapple, Rum, Vanilla, etc. Concentrations up to 200 ppm in candy. Up to 3000 ppm in chewing gum.
Produced from the alcohol by direct esterification with acetic acid under azeotropic conditions.