A fruity-waxy ester with a soft pineapple and apricot character wrapped in a fatty, slightly green undertone. Mildly sweet and creamy, reminiscent of overripe tropical fruit skin.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 71.
Colorless liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol, essential oils, perfume and flavor materials.
Sweet-oily, fruity odor with distinct perfumey floralness: Orris-Elderflower notes, under a Banana-like topnote.
Finds some use in flavor compositions for imitation Chocolate, Fruit (tutti-frutti, etc.), Liqueur and Brandy flavors, etc.
Finds some use in perfumery, but is rarely preferred over Hexyl caprylate, more popular for this purpose: a modifier in Oriental fragrances, a companion to Ionones, a modifier-fixative in topnotes for Oriental fragrances, etc.
Produced by direct esterification of m-Amyl alcohol with Caprylic acid under azeotropic conditions.