A soft, waxy, oily material with a very mild, almost odorless character — a faint clean-soap and fatty-waxy nuance with a whisper of benzyl-floral warmth. Used more as a fixative and emollient carrier than for its own smell.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 143.
Colorless oily liquid.
Very faint, fatty odor. Probably odorless to most people when this ester is absolutely pure.
Has been suggested as carrier solvent for aliphatic aldehydes in perfume compositions. Occasionally it may form part of the desirable, fatty notes in Jasmin, Gardenia, Neroli, etc.
Produced from Benzyl alcohol and Lauric acid (Dodecanoic acid) by direct esterification under azeotropic conditions.