A soft, sweet anisic-floral note reminiscent of anise seed rounded with a creamy balsamic warmth. Has a mild fruity-powdery facet that evokes hawthorn and mimosa, less sharp than anethole and with better tenacity.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 65.
Colorless oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and perfume oils, poorly soluble in monoterpenes and in propylene glycol.
Mild, sweet floral odor reminiscent of Heliotrope, fresh, soft, agreeable and very tenacious.
Sweet, fruity-floral taste, however, somewhat 'perfumey' in the same sense as Heliotropine.
Finds some use in perfumes as a sweetener-fixative in floral fragrances, such as Lilac, Honeysuckle, Sweet Pea, Freesia, etc. Blends well with Peru balsam, Tolu balsam, Vanillin derivatives, Anisalcohol, Heliotropine, Methoxy phenylbutanone, etc.
Occasionally used in flavor compositions as a modifier in Vanilla flavors, as a sweetener in fruit flavors, liqueur-flavors, etc.
Produced by direct esterification of iso-Amyl alcohol with Anisic acid under azeotropic conditions.