A fresh, fruity-green ester with a soft rosy-geranium facet. Opens juicy and slightly leafy, with a pear- and apple-like brightness lifted by a mild floral sweetness reminiscent of geraniol esters. Airy and lifting rather than heavy.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 85.
Colorless oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Mild, herbaceous-winey, remotely floral odor of moderate tenacity.
This ester is used, but very rarely, in perfume compositions, partly as component of artificial essential oils, partly as a novel note in perfumes of non-floral character, modern Chypres, etc.
Produced by direct esterification of Geranic acid with iso-Amylalcohol, preferably under azeotropic conditions.