A soft, oily-fruity ester with a waxy, slightly green character reminiscent of unripe pear skin and cognac. Mild and rounded rather than sharp, with a faint fatty-buttery undertone typical of medium-chain aliphatic esters.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 71.
Colorless liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol, perfume and flavor materials.
Peculiar oily-fruity, slightly animal odor reminiscent of Elderflower, with orris undertones.
Used in flavor compositions for imitation Chocolate, Fruit (mostly the heavier types), Liqueur and Brandy flavoring, etc.
Concentrations are usually traces (a few ppm) up to 7 ppm in the finished consumer product.
Produced by direct esterification of the iso-Amyl alcohol with Octanoic acid (Caprylic acid) under azeotropic conditions.