A juicy, fruity ester with an apricot-banana character and a soft pear-like nuance. Sweet and slightly buttery, it evaporates fairly quickly leaving a light candied fruit trail.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 67.
Colorless mobile liquid.
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol, essential oils, perfume and flavor materials. Insoluble in propylene glycol and glycerin.
Strong ethereal-fruity odor, reminiscent of apricot, banana, pineapple.
Finds extensive use in flavor compositions for imitation apple, apricot, banana, butter, butterscotch, cherry, fruit (tutti-frutti), grape, peach, pineapple, raspberry, strawberry, vanilla, etc.
Concentrations in finished products: up to 70 ppm. In chewing gum as high as 800 ppm.
Produced by direct esterification of n-Amyl alcohol with n-Butyric acid under azeotropic conditions.