A soft, sweet-balsamic ester with a gentle floral-fruity character reminiscent of amyl cinnamic aldehyde but rounder and more subdued. The isovalerate facet adds a mild fermented, slightly spicy-fruity nuance, giving a warm, powdery drydown suitable as a fixative in floral compositions.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 78.
Colorless liquid.
Mild fruity, somewhat herbaceous-tobacco-like odor.
Fruity-oily, warm and slightly spicy-tobaccolike, haylike flavor.
Occasionally used in flavor compositions for imitation Chocolate, Fruit, Grape and Nut flavors, usually in mere traces.
Produced from Amylcinnamic alcohol and iso-Valeric acid by direct esterification under azeotropic conditions.