A soft fruity-floral ester reminiscent of ripe pear and banana with a jasmine-like floral facet. Sweet and rounded, with a subtle green nuance, less sharp than benzyl acetate itself and more diffusive/creamy.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 66.
Colorless liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Peculiar green-floral, sweet and somewhat herbaceous odor of good tenacity.
Finds some use in perfumery for its heavy-floral and tenacious sweetness, occasionally in Honeysuckle, Orangeblossom, Gardenia, etc.
1) from iso-Amyl phenyl ketone by hydrogenation followed by acetylation. 2) from iso-Amyl magnesium iodide plus Benzaldehyde (Grignard reaction).